{"id":8493,"date":"2011-04-21T06:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T13:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2018-08-20T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T16:37:25","slug":"selecting-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/selecting-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selecting fabric is a very personal choice. I have a group of fabrics for my sampler class with Frances<\/a> and I needed to choose some background-esque fabric to go with the Four Patches for my Double Four patch block. These are large blocks and I don’t normally work in this size, so I found it challenging.<\/p>\n

I fell back on Lorraine Torrence<\/a>‘s old adage: Make Visual Decisions Visually. That is the best advice I have EVER gotten in quiltmaking. Go take a class from Lorraine and buy her books. She is awesome.<\/p>\n

\"Plain<\/a>
Plain Jane<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I liked the bold graphic-ness of this print, but thought it might be too large.<\/p>\n

\"Cherries\"<\/a>
Cherries<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought for sure this would work, but the cherries felt too scattered. They need to be hemmed in a little.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Bliss\"<\/a>
Bliss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Something in the color was off with this print. The aqua in the Bliss print is more green while the small flowered print is more on the turquoise side.<\/p>\n

\"Plain<\/a>
Plain Jane (smaller flowers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the same print as the first one, but the flowers are smaller. I like the way you can see more of the flowers. Success!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Final\"<\/a>
Final<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I chose the last print and above is how the finished block looks.<\/p>\n

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Selecting fabric is a very personal choice. I have a group of fabrics for my sampler class with Frances and I needed to choose some background-esque fabric to go with the Four Patches for my Double Four patch block. These are large blocks and I don’t normally work in this size, so I found it … Continue reading “Selecting Fabric”<\/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_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":[400],"tags":[465,310,315,321,132,142],"class_list":["post-8493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-aqua-red-sampler","tag-color","tag-fabric","tag-lessonsteaching","tag-quilt-class","tag-sampler-quilt-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","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=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}