{"id":66362,"date":"2025-04-20T07:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T14:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66362"},"modified":"2025-04-18T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T01:42:35","slug":"starting-chain-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/starting-chain-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Chain Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66424\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66424\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Chain Link block\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm-1200x782.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250418_183413_wm-sm.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chain Link block<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I should have called this FINALLY Starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofaquilter.com\/chain-link-modern-quilt-pattern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chain Link<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t like the way the pattern was written and that was a &#8220;launch blocker&#8221;, as we say at work. I finally sat down on the last day of the Retreat and figured out how to make this pattern work for me.<\/p>\n<p>This project seems to be fraught with problems. Besides the challenges of the pattern, I cannot find the white fabric I chose to use.As you can see, I have already cut some up and sewed it into sections of blocks.<\/p>\n<p>It MUST be around somewhere, but it wasn&#8217;t where I thought it was. I hope I didn&#8217;t use it for a donation quilt. We&#8217;ll have to see if this becomes a &#8216;design challenge.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should have called this FINALLY Starting Chain Link. I didn&#8217;t like the way the pattern was written and that was a &#8220;launch blocker&#8221;, as we say at work. I finally sat down on the last day of the Retreat and figured out how to make this pattern work for me. This project seems to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/starting-chain-link\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting Chain Link&#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":[316,252],"class_list":["post-66362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-gifts","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\/66362","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=66362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66425,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66362\/revisions\/66425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}