{"id":66012,"date":"2025-03-09T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66012"},"modified":"2025-03-09T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T00:26:54","slug":"new-needles-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-needles-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"New Needles Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to lunch with Friend Julie when they closed the road and she couldn&#8217;t get through. I was near Los Altos, so I stopped at the <a href=\"https:\/\/losaltos.sweetdiplomacy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gluten free bakery<\/a> and then went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needlesstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Needles Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63613\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240710_173909_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63613\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240710_173909_wm-sm-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"Superbloom for Auntie\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240710_173909_wm-sm-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240710_173909_wm-sm-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/20240710_173909_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Superbloom for Auntie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wanted to quickly see if they had some fabric I could use for the zipper tabs for <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/superbloom-project-ideas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the Superblooms<\/a> on which I am working.<\/p>\n<p>The iris fabric (right) is the lining fabric because my aunt loves LOVES Loves irises. I don&#8217;t want to use it for the zipper tabs, because most the design will not be visible and I think it will look chaotic. I could use a blue, but kept thinking of that ochre color in more of a tone-on-tone design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66017\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66017\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Needles fabrics - March 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm-1200x751.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250306_161158_wm-sm.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Needles fabrics &#8211; March 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found something that work and few other fabrics as well.<\/p>\n<p>The white will be a background to something, perhaps the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/quilty-birthday-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Straits of Mackinac quilt<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The blue fruit (lemon?) fabric will be an Atlas portfolio. I have no need to make another, but the fabric is pretty.<\/p>\n<p>Needles was part of a shop hop (10 shops in 3 days &#8211; Yikes!). Though I wasn&#8217;t doing the shop hop, they gave me a free FQ, a free measuring tape and a pattern for some fabric buckets. I thought that was nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on my way to lunch with Friend Julie when they closed the road and she couldn&#8217;t get through. I was near Los Altos, so I stopped at the gluten free bakery and then went to Needles Studio. I wanted to quickly see if they had some fabric I could use for the zipper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-needles-fabric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Needles Fabric&#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":[315,334],"class_list":["post-66012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-fabric","tag-quilt-shop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66012","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=66012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66018,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66012\/revisions\/66018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}