{"id":63871,"date":"2024-09-14T06:57:19","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T13:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=63871"},"modified":"2025-03-08T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T03:20:46","slug":"green-improv-coming-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/green-improv-coming-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Improv Coming Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63874\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_105552_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63874\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_105552_wm-sm-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"Green Improv piece - August 2024\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_105552_wm-sm-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_105552_wm-sm-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240831_105552_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green Improv piece &#8211; August 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have made some progress on the Green Improv #2 donation top. This is the second green improv, though the first one was called <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/finished-green-thing-top-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Green Thing<\/a>. Perhaps I should call #2 The Swamp Creature. LOL!<\/p>\n<p>I started using the green scraps I had already pinned together in the green scrap drawer. It was easy to make progress by using them as <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltville.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/leaders-enders-whys-and-hows.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaders and enders<\/a> while I worked on other projects, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/ombre-weave-blocks-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ombre Weave quilt<\/a>. It is amazing how pieces grow larger if I actually work on them!<\/p>\n<p>it is about 36 inches wide now. I&#8217;d like the piece to be minimum 40&#215;40 inches. I don&#8217;t really want to put a border on it. I&#8217;d like it to matches the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/series-quilts\/color-improv-donation-top-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other quilts in this series<\/a>, but I may, if I can&#8217;t get it large enough. I was thinking of scattering bits of improv in between sashing. I would want to do that with green solids and I don&#8217;t know that I have enough green solids to make the idea work. It is a thought I&#8217;ll keep in the back of my mind if I need it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have made some progress on the Green Improv #2 donation top. This is the second green improv, though the first one was called The Green Thing. Perhaps I should call #2 The Swamp Creature. LOL! I started using the green scraps I had already pinned together in the green scrap drawer. It was easy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/green-improv-coming-along\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Improv Coming Along&#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":[530],"tags":[137,537,355,72,371,252],"class_list":["post-63871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-bamqg","tag-color-improv-series","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-improv","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63871","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=63871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63876,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63871\/revisions\/63876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}