{"id":66666,"date":"2025-06-05T07:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66666"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:28:51","slug":"triumphant-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/triumphant-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Triumphant Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66667\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66667\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66667\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"Triumphant block 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm-1024x786.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250529_183444_wm-sm.jpg 1045w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Triumphant block 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It really is all about mystery quilts lately.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got all the pieces I needed for the first block cut out correctly and started to sew the block together.<\/p>\n<p>I am struggling with the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4mwQkeO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuRTy rulers<\/a>**. I wanted to give up since my sewing time is really precious. However, cutting the background was so easy that I have it already cut out and couldn&#8217;t see wasting those strips. I&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<p>So far, I think it is an interesting&nbsp; design, but not one I would have come up with myself. Perhaps this is a stretch for me? I am definitely using my brain with the rulers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>**N. B. : Obviously, you should shop at local quilt shops and small businesses. However, if you are too busy or can\u2019t find what you need there, I use Amazon affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item when you click on an item\u2019s link in my post. There is no additional cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It really is all about mystery quilts lately. I finally got all the pieces I needed for the first block cut out correctly and started to sew the block together. I am struggling with the HuRTy rulers**. I wanted to give up since my sewing time is really precious. However, cutting the background was so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/triumphant-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Triumphant Progress&#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":[270,331,550],"class_list":["post-66666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing","tag-triumphant-mystery-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\/66666","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=66666"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66690,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66666\/revisions\/66690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}