{"id":701,"date":"2009-01-09T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/using-fabric\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T10:25:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:25:19","slug":"using-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/using-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really in a philosophical frame of mind right now. Not sure why, but I seem to be thinking more about things rather than just trying to get through the day. All that vacation freed up brain space, I guess!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SWbHFa6kZ2I\/AAAAAAAAC_U\/WLvTd8fKC-c\/s1600-h\/PICT3620sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 216px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SWbHFa6kZ2I\/AAAAAAAAC_U\/WLvTd8fKC-c\/s320\/PICT3620sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289133708331476834\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I started a new tote bag last night (forgoing all computer time for fabric time!). As you can see, the fabric is a large flower print. I needed another fabric to go with it. As I was pawing through my blues (oh no! are they back??), I found myself thinking about using fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I am very grateful for all of the fabric that I have. It makes me feel like I could sew to eternity and not worry. It seems that when I am looking for a specific color or shade, however, that I don&#8217;t have enough fabric. What I was doing last night was looking through fabrics to go with this wild flower print. It was a lot easier because I didn&#8217;t have a certain value or tone in mind. Does the amount of fabric expand or contract depending on what I am looking for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really in a philosophical frame of mind right now. Not sure why, but I seem to be thinking more about things rather than just trying to get through the day. All that vacation freed up brain space, I guess! I started a new tote bag last night (forgoing all computer time for fabric &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/using-fabric\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Fabric&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[389],"tags":[315,332,66],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-fabric","tag-projects","tag-tote-bags"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}