{"id":67782,"date":"2025-09-06T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67782"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:14:24","slug":"patchwork-palooza-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/patchwork-palooza-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork Palooza #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67549\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67549\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Patchwork-Palooza.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67549\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Patchwork-Palooza-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Patchwork Palooza\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Patchwork-Palooza-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Patchwork-Palooza-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Patchwork-Palooza.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patchwork Palooza<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I spent a little bit of time yesterday starting the Patchwork Palooza Project (PPP??). I started with Block 8 as that was the most recent one. I&#8217;ll go back and do the others as I have time.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled out the Art Gallery Natural Elements fabrics I bought at <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/quilters-hollow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quilter&#8217;s Hollow<\/a> a few months ago. They aren&#8217;t the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20210629_134753_wm-sm.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fabric pull<\/a> I discussed when I first mentioned this project but I think they will look nice. Ultimately, the blocks are too small for the fabric pull since the two main fabrics are comprised of big blowsy prints.<\/p>\n<p>I also added a lavender Grunge print I bought on a whim.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67786\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67786\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250830_140925_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67786\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250830_140925_wm-sm-290x300.jpg\" alt=\"Patchwork Palooza block 8\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250830_140925_wm-sm-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250830_140925_wm-sm-768x794.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250830_140925_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 85vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patchwork Palooza block 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Talking about the fabric was the most exciting part as the sewing didn&#8217;t go well. Despite my years of experience and careful cutting this block came out terribly. I cut off all of the points. Even after I fixed it it didn&#8217;t look right. This is a write off and I&#8217;ll do it again. Maybe it can be used as the beginning of a improv piece? An improv piece that I slash up so nobody sees how terrible it is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a little bit of time yesterday starting the Patchwork Palooza Project (PPP??). I started with Block 8 as that was the most recent one. I&#8217;ll go back and do the others as I have time. I pulled out the Art Gallery Natural Elements fabrics I bought at Quilter&#8217;s Hollow a few months ago. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/patchwork-palooza-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patchwork Palooza #8&#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":[555,349,72,554,252],"class_list":["post-67782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-block-of-the-month","tag-blocks","tag-group-project","tag-patchwork-palooza","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\/67782","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=67782"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67789,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67782\/revisions\/67789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}