{"id":60579,"date":"2023-10-30T07:01:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=60579"},"modified":"2023-10-12T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T05:17:47","slug":"he-tried-to-make-it-up-to-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/he-tried-to-make-it-up-to-her\/","title":{"rendered":"He Tried to Make it Up to Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60576\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60576\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"He Tried to Make it Up to Her\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm-1024x642.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm-1200x752.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/hetried_wm.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He Tried to Make it Up to Her<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This quilt has been on my mind since I finished &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/finished-tarts-come-to-tea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Tarts Come to Tea<\/a>.&#8221; It is another quilt in an ongoing, though dormant, series of quilts using novelty fabrics, applique\u2019 and improvisational design.<\/p>\n<p>Most of this design is comprised of piecing and applique&#8217;. We used far fewer prints in this piece than in the previous quilts in the series. Some of the flowers were cut out of fabrics, broderie perse style. We used them instead of drawing the flowers and recreating them out of fabric. We did use some florals as sashing and spacing pieces as well.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60577\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60577\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pitcher_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60577\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pitcher_wm-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"He Tried: Pitcher of Tulips\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pitcher_wm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/pitcher_wm.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He Tried: Pitcher of Tulips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the fourth in the series. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/improvisational-piecing-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Her Eyes Were Bigger Than Her Stomach<\/a>, the first in the series, was a bit more chaotic than She Had to Have Her Latte. &#8220;He Tried&#8221; used many fewer novelty fabrics than &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-1996-1999\/she-had-to-have-her-latte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latte<\/a>&#8220;, which was an evolution of design choices in the series. The design required more drawings than the others in the series. I was very pleased with the overall design.<\/p>\n<p>I did a number of the drawings and I was pleased with how well they came out. I was especially pleased with the pitcher of tulips.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60578\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60578\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60578\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"He Tried: Star Flowers\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm-554x1024.jpg 554w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm-768x1419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/starflowers_wm.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 85vw, 162px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He Tried: Star Flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am also pretty pleased with this vase of Star Flowers. I thought putting the star-like shape on top of a circle was a brilliant bit of design work.<\/p>\n<p>I started this with TFQ during a visit to her in Seattle. Most of the fabrics were hers. We didn&#8217;t finish it and I don&#8217;t know where this quilt top ended up. I think this is why I have been thinking about it. As I said, I like the design, so I am thinking of remaking it. I am NOT thinking of quilting it myself like I did the Tarts Come to Tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quilt has been on my mind since I finished &#8220;The Tarts Come to Tea.&#8221; It is another quilt in an ongoing, though dormant, series of quilts using novelty fabrics, applique\u2019 and improvisational design. Most of this design is comprised of piecing and applique&#8217;. We used far fewer prints in this piece than in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/he-tried-to-make-it-up-to-her\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;He Tried to Make it Up to Her&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[519],"tags":[371,150],"class_list":["post-60579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-519","tag-improv","tag-pre-blog-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60579","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=60579"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60597,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60579\/revisions\/60597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}