{"id":8195,"date":"2011-03-20T06:23:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=8195"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:51:56","slug":"fabric-of-the-year-2010-top-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/fabric-of-the-year-2010-top-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabric of the Year 2010 Top & Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2010 Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I mentioned in the Zig Zaggy post<\/a>, I am working on finishing tasks for a number of quilts. One of the tasks I finished was the back of the FOTY 2010.<\/p>\n

The Zig Zaggy quilt back was miserable to make because I used too many small pieces. I put it aside 4 or 6 months ago and I hadn’t finished it when I started the FOTY 2010 back.<\/p>\n

I decided that I would try and use similar colors instead of using all variety of colors. Is this a new way of making backs? I don’t know, but found it a lot easier to use big pieces instead of a bunch of fat quarters. The process went faster and wasn’t so frustrating. It also didn’t take up an entire weekend to make one back. I think that using a similar color will be better for the quilting. I think it will help the quilting stitches blend in.<\/p>\n

\"Building<\/a>
Building the Back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I built the back on the design wall, which I found to be a lot easier than trying to lay it out on the floor. I really like having a second design wall, as I think I said.<\/p>\n

I had the Metro Coffee fabric I had saved to use. The Metro Coffee fabric was printed in such a way that made it too much of a pain to use for another bag. I found another large of piece of fabric in a similar color.<\/p>\n

In addition, I used number of the fabrics from this year, but I also used a fabric or two from one of my fabric bins.<\/p>\n

Somehow, I found using similar colors was a lot easier to make than using many different colors. I think it took out one decision from the process of making the back.<\/p>\n

\"FOTY<\/a>
FOTY 2010 Back Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t know what has gotten into me with this finishing jag. I think some factors were: not having enough time to sew for a week or so which made just want to sew as quickly as possible. Bringing a quilt to the quilter and knowing she could do a just a little more for me made me get on with the bindings so I would be farther ahead when I got the quilts back. I also think that talking with Colleen about three quilts ma and then made me see the possibilities if I did just a bit more work to get more quilts to her. I am behind on FOTY 2010 and\u00a0 finishing the FOTY 2010 top made me want to try and catch up on it.<\/p>\n

I knew I would have a good chunk of time on the weekend to sew, so I got a bug in my ear to move through some of the finishing tasks. I also knew that I didn’t want to spend all of my weekend sewing finishing tasks, which doesn’t seem like creative sewing to me. Since I had a bit of time during the week, and small amounts of time are great for making bindings, I decided to make the bindings for the 3 quilts (Frosted Stars<\/a>, Frosted Stars Leftovers<\/a> and the Purple Quilt)<\/a> which are currently being quilted. I also made the binding for FOTY 2010 and will make one for the Zig Zaggy quilt.<\/p>\n

It is great that my longarm quilter will machine sew the bindings to the front of the quilt for me. I normally do it myself, but, this week, I decided that having her do it would move the process along a bit quicker.<\/p>\n

On my list for this year is finishing one of my UFOs. I need to move through some of these other projects before I can get to that UFO. I have been trying to move projects past the piecing process before I start something new. I am trying to move some of these projects past that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in the Zig Zaggy post, I am working on finishing tasks for a number of quilts. One of the tasks I finished was the back of the FOTY 2010. The Zig Zaggy quilt back was miserable to make because I used too many small pieces. I put it aside 4 or 6 … Continue reading “Fabric of the Year 2010 Top & Back”<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[390],"tags":[352,224,16,17,252],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-construction","tag-fabric-of-the-year-2010","tag-finishing","tag-foty","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\/8195","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=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}