{"id":60132,"date":"2023-08-27T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=60132"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:20:46","slug":"metro-twist-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/metro-twist-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Twist Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I talked about selecting a large print fabric to add to the Metro Twist. After that whole selection process, I pieced some blocks using one strip of fabric to see how they would look.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the before and after:<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-60132 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/metro-twist-so-far\/20230716_154629_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230716_154629_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Metro Twist - July 2023\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-59792\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-59792'>\n\t\t\t\tMetro Twist &#8211; July 2023\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/20230820_165305_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230820_165305_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Metro Twist After Veggies\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-60102\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-60102'>\n\t\t\t\tMetro Twist After Veggies\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The veggie print makes the quilt look darker. The quilt will be given to one of my nephews so I think the darker look works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I talked about selecting a large print fabric to add to the Metro Twist. After that whole selection process, I pieced some blocks using one strip of fabric to see how they would look. Here is the before and after: The veggie print makes the quilt look darker. The quilt will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/metro-twist-then-and-now\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Metro Twist Then and Now&#8221;<\/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":[519],"tags":[526,331,353,252,553,498],"class_list":["post-60132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-metro-twist","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt","tag-sew-kind-of-wonderful","tag-specialty-ruler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132","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=60132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60134,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60132\/revisions\/60134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}