{"id":65430,"date":"2025-02-03T07:07:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=65430"},"modified":"2025-03-03T17:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T01:46:32","slug":"old-town-clue-5-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/old-town-clue-5-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Town Clue 5: Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65459\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250118_184046_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65459\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250118_184046_wm-sm-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town: Clue 5\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250118_184046_wm-sm-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250118_184046_wm-sm-768x631.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250118_184046_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town: Clue 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished Clue 5, the block centers of Old Town. I think I only have some <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/triangle-technique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HSTs<\/a> to make before I can start assembling blocks. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>I spent almost the whole weekend working on it, but finished and worked on some bags I need to finish once these were done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65454\" style=\"width: 139px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65454\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm-139x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scrappy Old Town Square-in-a-Square\" width=\"139\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm-139x300.jpg 139w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm-473x1024.jpg 473w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm-768x1663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm-709x1536.jpg 709w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_180506_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 85vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scrappy Old Town Square-in-a-Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I read the clue wrong and started out making the outside triangles scrappy, but pivoted and made them all match, which is what it looked like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/search\/keyword\/?q=%23oldtownmysteryquilt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">others were doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lavenders are leaning towards purple. I hope that they are not too dark. I really tried to keep them light.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65452\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65452\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65452\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town Clue 5 detail\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-1536x642.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm-1200x502.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250117_225757_wm-sm.jpg 1918w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town Clue 5 detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I know I could have done my own thing, but I thought a little control would be better. I am already substituting lavender for the coral called for in the design. I think the lavender looks good so far. We&#8217;ll see when I put the blocks together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Clue 5, the block centers of Old Town. I think I only have some HSTs to make before I can start assembling blocks. Yay! I spent almost the whole weekend working on it, but finished and worked on some bags I need to finish once these were done. I read the clue wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/old-town-clue-5-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Town Clue 5: Finished&#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":[538],"tags":[543,192,270,545,331],"class_list":["post-65430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-foundation-piecing","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-old-town-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65430","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=65430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65471,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65430\/revisions\/65471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}