{"id":64658,"date":"2024-11-11T07:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=64658"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T20:07:52","slug":"sad-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/sad-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend&#8217;s daughter died in a car accident. She was 17.<\/p>\n<p>I have known my friend since 1981 or 1982. We were teens together for a very important year. We are not in contact every day, but she is a sister of my heart. Immediately, I thought I wanted to make her a quilt. Of course.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time I have wanted to make a Jacob&#8217;s Ladder quilt &#8211; or a Jacob&#8217;s Ladder variation. The original idea for the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stepping Stones quilts<\/a> came from the Pam &amp; Nicky Lintott book, <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/book-review-lintott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Layer Cake, Jelly Roll and Charm Quilts<\/a>.&nbsp; Of course, I made some variations.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/stepping-stones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stepping Stones<\/a> posts and looked at the EQ project file, but decided that it wasn&#8217;t quite right. I want to make another version of this quilt sometime, but today is not that day<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_64692\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64692\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jacobs-Ladder-Kathy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64692\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jacobs-Ladder-Kathy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jacobs Ladder for Kathy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jacobs-Ladder-Kathy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jacobs-Ladder-Kathy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Jacobs-Ladder-Kathy.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacobs Ladder for Kathy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I looked at blocks in EQ and designed a Jacob&#8217;s Ladder type quilt.<\/p>\n<p>This was my first attempt at color, using the Sweet &amp; Plenty charm pack I bought at <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/another-trip-to-portland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ocean Waves in Eureka<\/a> as a base. I went through a lot of iterations of color, placement of groups of color, etc.<\/p>\n<p>This design wasn&#8217;t working for me. It didn&#8217;t feel right for the purpose. I thought about forcing myself to make it. I have a date with Colleen in a couple of weeks and would like to get a quilt to her to speed the process along.<\/p>\n<p>I decided I needed to make the right quilt. I am going to keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>I will look through the quilts I have made and see if there is one that will stand in for a fit for purpose quilt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend&#8217;s daughter died in a car accident. She was 17. I have known my friend since 1981 or 1982. We were teens together for a very important year. We are not in contact every day, but she is a sister of my heart. Immediately, I thought I wanted to make her a quilt. Of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/sad-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sad Quilt&#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":[316,364],"class_list":["post-64658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-530","tag-gifts","tag-hunting-gathering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658","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=64658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64693,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64658\/revisions\/64693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}