{"id":57235,"date":"2022-09-12T07:05:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=57235"},"modified":"2022-09-11T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T18:27:07","slug":"starting-on-the-lobster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/starting-on-the-lobster\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting on the Lobster"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have had this project on my list for awhile. I show the original drawing in one post<\/a> that also calls this piece part of a CQFA placemat challenge. I discussed working on it<\/a> after I did some stitching. I showed it at a CQFA Art Walk<\/a>. It seems that 2019 is the last time I worked on it.<\/p>\n

The piece is small and I kept chiding myself for not just doing it. The muse, however, is a fickle mistress and she was not interested in this piece for a long time.<\/p>\n

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The Lobster with potential blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, she allowed me a flash of inspiration and I ran with it. I have started piecing it into a table runner. I need more table runners for my buffet and I thought this would make a good one for summer. Also, I could admire my lobster more frequently.<\/p>\n

I always like the Sawtooth Star block and thought it would work to make the table runner a little longer. I put some pinwheels inside the Sawtooth Star’s center just to make it a little more interesting.<\/p>\n

I may add some pointed ends. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have had this project on my list for awhile. I show the original drawing in one post that also calls this piece part of a CQFA placemat challenge. I discussed working on it after I did some stitching. I showed it at a CQFA Art Walk. It seems that 2019 is the last time … Continue reading “Starting on the Lobster”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[506],"tags":[3,114,331],"class_list":["post-57235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-applique","tag-cqfa","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57235","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57257,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57235\/revisions\/57257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}