{"id":66207,"date":"2025-04-02T07:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66207"},"modified":"2025-03-23T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T03:47:58","slug":"grey-improv-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/grey-improv-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Improv Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66209\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66209\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Grey Improv continues\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250323_155259_wm-sm.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grey Improv continues<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After finishing the White Strips #3 donation top, I needed another leaders and enders project.<\/p>\n<p>This grey improv scrap top has hung on my small design wall for <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/grey-improv-donation-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">almost a year<\/a>. I am shocked at that! I didn&#8217;t realize how much time had flown by.<\/p>\n<p>My grey-black-brown drawer isn&#8217;t crammed full, but it isn&#8217;t empty either and I decided that I need to work on this project to get it off the design wall and to someone who needs it. Also, it will be a relatively quick win on my fabric used spreadsheet.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, as leaders and enders, I am sewing together all the scraps that are not strips. I am sewing them into pieces that I can then sew on to the top above. You can see pieces I have placed, but not sewn. They are just temporarily in place until I can add more pieces to them to make a unit large enough to expand the top. It&#8217;s a lot of piecing, because the pieces are small.<\/p>\n<p>The main piece I have already sewn together is about 32 inches wide. I need another 10&nbsp; inches, at least. I&#8217;ll probably have to dig into the strips to make the quilt big enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the White Strips #3 donation top, I needed another leaders and enders project. This grey improv scrap top has hung on my small design wall for almost a year. I am shocked at that! I didn&#8217;t realize how much time had flown by. My grey-black-brown drawer isn&#8217;t crammed full, but it isn&#8217;t empty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/grey-improv-returns\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Grey Improv Returns&#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":[538],"tags":[137,537,355,72,371,331,252],"class_list":["post-66207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-color-improv-series","tag-doing-good","tag-group-project","tag-improv","tag-piecing","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\/66207","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=66207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66217,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66207\/revisions\/66217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}