{"id":62717,"date":"2024-05-24T06:52:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T13:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=62717"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T03:30:45","slug":"another-look-at-corner-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/another-look-at-corner-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Look at Corner Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13582\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1693sm2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13582\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1693sm2-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Corner Store Blocks - late May 2012\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1693sm2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PICT1693sm2.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corner Store Blocks &#8211; late May 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the Retreat, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nickimierz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicki<\/a> was working on a quilt that reminded me of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2013\/corner-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Corner Store quilt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started this quilt in 2011 after seeing a very small version of it in a book by Lark Crafts called <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/book-review-pretty-little-mini-quilts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pretty Little Mini Quilts<\/a>. It is a quilt you can do in different ways and with scraps. Both Nicki and I used scrap triangles, so the corners are asymmetrical. I put triangles on two corners (opposite each other) while Nicki put triangles on one corner and then arranged them so all the of the triangles were touching. She called them &#8216;gems&#8217;, which I think is a lovely term.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great scrap quilt, because you can use charm squares for the background and use up a bunch of scrap triangles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t think you need it, I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/making-a-corner-store-block\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tutorial<\/a> on making a Corner Store block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Retreat, Nicki was working on a quilt that reminded me of the Corner Store quilt. I started this quilt in 2011 after seeing a very small version of it in a book by Lark Crafts called Pretty Little Mini Quilts. It is a quilt you can do in different ways and with scraps. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/another-look-at-corner-store\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Look at Corner Store&#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":[],"class_list":["post-62717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717","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=62717"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62720,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62717\/revisions\/62720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}