{"id":66619,"date":"2025-05-21T07:08:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66619"},"modified":"2025-05-19T08:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:13:42","slug":"moving-forward-on-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/moving-forward-on-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Forward on Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66620\" style=\"width: 236px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250518_174807_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66620\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250518_174807_wm-sm-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town - left checkerboard\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250518_174807_wm-sm-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250518_174807_wm-sm-768x975.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250518_174807_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 85vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town &#8211; left checkerboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I continued to work in dribs and drabs to get another border on Old Town. This one is a pieced checkerboard border.<\/p>\n<p>I considered stopping work on this quilt at the plain border. I decided to soldier on because I already had made hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/more-old-town-progress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 Patches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed at how different the quilt looks after adding that checkerboard border. I know I only photographed half of the quilt. I stood and looked at it for a long time trying to figure out why that one border made such a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continued to work in dribs and drabs to get another border on Old Town. This one is a pieced checkerboard border. I considered stopping work on this quilt at the plain border. I decided to soldier on because I already had made hundreds of 4 Patches. I am amazed at how different the quilt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/moving-forward-on-borders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moving Forward on Borders&#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":[543,270,545,331],"class_list":["post-66619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","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\/66619","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=66619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66621,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66619\/revisions\/66621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}