{"id":62334,"date":"2024-04-21T07:17:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T14:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62334"},"modified":"2024-04-09T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:26:25","slug":"colorblocks-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/colorblocks-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorblocks 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_62353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62353\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Colorblocks-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62353\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Colorblocks-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Colorblocks 3 - EQ8 layout\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Colorblocks-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Colorblocks-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Colorblocks-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorblocks 3 &#8211; EQ8 layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cyndi W suggested we all do a challenge for the Fair. This year it is a color challenge.<\/p>\n<p>For fun, I looked in EQ8 to see if I had any old designs from the previous quilts. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/colorblocks-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorblocks<\/a> is way too old for there to be an EQ8 file. I made that quilt in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62357\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_130117_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62357\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_130117_wm-sm-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Silk FQs\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_130117_wm-sm-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_130117_wm-sm-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_130117_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silk FQs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t going to do it, because I have enough on my plate at the moment. Eventually,&nbsp; I decided I would. I decided that it would be a good opportunity to finally use up that silk fabric I bought a long time ago. Back in the day, I had the intention of making another <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/colorblocks-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorblocks quilt<\/a>, then never did. This project has been on my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/dream-projects-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dream Project list<\/a> for awhile AND it will qualify for the President&#8217;s challenge this year. If I finish it, I will get a lot of bang for my quilt buck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62337\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62337\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_151159_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62337\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_151159_wm-sm-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Colorblocks 3 tester block\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_151159_wm-sm-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_151159_wm-sm-768x756.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240407_151159_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colorblocks 3 tester block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am using the Square in a Square ruler I bought through the guild last year. I made a test block out of scraps to get a feel for how it would work. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. Except for the bias on the edges, I think it looks great.<\/p>\n<p>I have some time and the piece will be small. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyndi W suggested we all do a challenge for the Fair. This year it is a color challenge. For fun, I looked in EQ8 to see if I had any old designs from the previous quilts. Colorblocks is way too old for there to be an EQ8 file. I made that quilt in 1990. &nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/colorblocks-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Colorblocks 3&#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":[530],"tags":[310,338,463],"class_list":["post-62334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-color","tag-quiltmaking-challenges","tag-san-mateo-county-fair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334","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=62334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62371,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62334\/revisions\/62371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}