{"id":72129,"date":"2026-09-03T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T14:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=72129"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:13:40","slug":"flower-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/flower-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower #8"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72133\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_191645_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72133\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_191645_wm-sm-296x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flower #8 v.1\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_191645_wm-sm-296x300.jpg 296w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_191645_wm-sm-768x779.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_191645_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 85vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower #8 v.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/finished-flower-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flower #7<\/a> a few days ago. I wanted to keep up the momentum, so I started cutting out#8 when I had a few extra minutes over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/citymadequilts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Made Quilts<\/a> the other day to check out their solids. They carry a brand other than Kona, which is a relief, Michael Miller, I think. I bought a couple to mix with my Tilda fabrics so I could use the lavender and peach Tilda on Flower #8.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72140\" style=\"width: 292px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_192946_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72140\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_192946_wm-sm-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flower #8 v.2\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_192946_wm-sm-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_192946_wm-sm-768x789.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260829_192946_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 85vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flower #8 v.2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I cut the lavender and peach solids and the print then went from there. I had some other pieces cut, so I tried those. Some of the pinks don&#8217;t work for me, so I tried again.<\/p>\n<p>The version, right, is what I have at the moment. It is sitting on my design. I want greens in the corners, but am not sure this combination is working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Flower #7 a few days ago. I wanted to keep up the momentum, so I started cutting out#8 when I had a few extra minutes over the weekend. I went to City Made Quilts the other day to check out their solids. They carry a brand other than Kona, which is a relief, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/flower-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flower #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_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":[558],"tags":[316,252,553,498],"class_list":["post-72129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-gifts","tag-project-quilt","tag-sew-kind-of-wonderful","tag-specialty-ruler"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129","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=72129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72205,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72129\/revisions\/72205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}