{"id":67669,"date":"2025-09-18T07:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67669"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:06:35","slug":"black-improv-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/black-improv-progresses\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Improv Progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67670\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_141016_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67670\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_141016_wm-sm-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"Black Improv in process\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_141016_wm-sm-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_141016_wm-sm-768x814.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250824_141016_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 85vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Improv in process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t made much progress on this piece, but I haven&#8217;t given on it either. After I posted about the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/improv-pieces-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Color Improv finishes<\/a>, I got some nice feedback and decided to get back to this piece.<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of the strip blocks and I decided to add them to the piece so as to make it larger sooner.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It has been a struggle, because I have the<a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/august-2025-donation-blocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> half 16 patch blocks for the next Sidewalk quilt<\/a> as leaders and enders as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/more-four-patch-fun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Four Patch Fun piecing<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So much quilty goodness!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made much progress on this piece, but I haven&#8217;t given on it either. After I posted about the most recent Color Improv finishes, I got some nice feedback and decided to get back to this piece. I had a couple of the strip blocks and I decided to add them to the piece &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/black-improv-progresses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Black Improv Progresses&#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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[538],"tags":[137,537,355,72,371,252],"class_list":["post-67669","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-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\/67669","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=67669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67674,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67669\/revisions\/67674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}