{"id":572,"date":"2008-09-02T01:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T08:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T03:32:51","slug":"out-of-the-mouths-of-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Mouths of Babes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest update to the Flowering Snowball (Cross Blocks).<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwsUqNxmXI\/AAAAAAAAB74\/HjTosoPn_XU\/s1600-h\/PICT2218sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwsUqNxmXI\/AAAAAAAAB74\/HjTosoPn_XU\/s320\/PICT2218sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241112799793486194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As I have mentioned, I am nearing the end of the project. I am not sure what the end actually is, but am thinking that it is 10 more of the middle blocks and then a round of border blocks. I haven&#8217;t designed the border blocks, but will design them to complete the colored areas with the rest being white. I was also thinking of a black border. I need to play around with what I am thinking because it is much easier to show a photo\/image than explain.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwsU2J0r7I\/AAAAAAAAB8A\/NWIcvth-rRE\/s1600-h\/PICT2213sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SLwsU2J0r7I\/AAAAAAAAB8A\/NWIcvth-rRE\/s320\/PICT2213sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241112802998136754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Here is a detail.<\/p>\n<p>The Child came in and joined me while I was looking at the blocks. He said that it looks too chaotic and I need to put some solids in it. HUH???<\/p>\n<p>I do think he is right. I don&#8217;t know if I will use tone-on-tones or something like low contrast batiks, but I think I need to add some resting spots for the viewers eyes. I will try it out and see what I come up with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest update to the Flowering Snowball (Cross Blocks). As I have mentioned, I am nearing the end of the project. I am not sure what the end actually is, but am thinking that it is 10 more of the middle blocks and then a round of border blocks. I haven&#8217;t designed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Out of the Mouths of Babes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[388],"tags":[170,331,252],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-flowering-snowball","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}