{"id":919,"date":"2009-02-24T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2016-05-23T20:37:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:37:26","slug":"eye-spy-lurching-towards-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/eye-spy-lurching-towards-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Spy Lurching Towards the Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know where this month has gone. Frankly, I am glad February is coming to a close, but I still wonder what happened to the days.<\/p>\n

My next longarm day is March 2 and the Eye Spy is in line to be quilted. As a result, I needed to make a back and get the Eye Spy<\/a> in shape for finishing. I put the diamonds in to fill in the diamond shaped space, so that I wouldn’t have to hack through any of the hexagons (which is what most patterns recommend). I didn’t want a zig zaggy border, so I started out by cutting off the excess from the diamonds.\u00a0 I had intended just to leave the edges straight after cutting – no borders.<\/p>\n

\"Eye<\/a><\/p>\n

While cutting the diamonds in half, I realized that the middle of those diamonds was one big bias edge. This brand spanking new bias in addition to 3 sides of each hexagon being on the bias was asking for trouble during the quilting process. The top\u00a0 needed some stabilization, so I added some borders and corners to the odd shaped corners of the top.<\/p>\n

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\"Corner<\/a><\/dt>\n
Corner detail<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

The little star printed piece is the patch I had to insert into the corner to make the corner a 90 degree angle. You can see it really well above.<\/p>\n

\"Finished<\/a><\/p>\n

Above is a picture of half of the top. The quilt top is another monster and I gave up on moving furniture to fit the whole thing into one picture. I am going to have to think up a way to photograph whole quilts, especially these huge things I seem to be making.<\/p>\n

I used a new (to me) method of measuring for borders.\u00a0 I measured width-wise (across) and lengthwise (down) in three places on the quilt and cut the borders to the average size. I did have to ease, but the top is flat and I am happy about that. I found one little tuck that I will need to fix before the longarming. All in all it worked pretty well.<\/p>\n

\"Scary<\/a>
Scary backing fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I acquired the crocodile fabric a long time ago, perhaps in the early 1990s from a woman named Joan who was getting rid of everything. It is a Joe Boxer fabric and I never saw anything like it. I also never heard of Joe Boxer selling fabric, but they totally should, because their fabrics have such a sense of humor.<\/p>\n

At one point, I thought I would cut out the alligators (crocodiles??) and applique’ them on something, but the inspiration never struck. Also, I only have about a half yard, which limited what project I could complete using the fabric. I came across the fabric over the weekend and proposed it as a backing fabric. The Child took a liking to it, so I will use it as part of the backing. Shopping in my fabric closet can be fun!<\/p>\n

\"hexagons<\/a>
hexagons on the back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had some leftover hexagons, so I put some straight edges on them and will also use this piece for the back. I need to find a nice way of making this bit play nicely with the crocs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know where this month has gone. Frankly, I am glad February is coming to a close, but I still wonder what happened to the days. My next longarm day is March 2 and the Eye Spy is in line to be quilted. As a result, I needed to make a back and get … Continue reading “Eye Spy Lurching Towards the Finish Line”<\/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":[389],"tags":[269,139,331,332,141,362],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-389","tag-eye-spy","tag-hexagons","tag-piecing","tag-projects","tag-williams-quilts","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}