{"id":9590,"date":"2011-07-13T06:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T13:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:50:13","slug":"stars-for-san-bruno-2-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/stars-for-san-bruno-2-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars for San Bruno #2 in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"SfSB<\/a>
SfSB #2 Design Process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ‘paint was barely dry’ on SfSB #1, but I got busy putting the Stars for San Bruno #2 quilt together on Sunday. I had done a few smaller projects on Friday and Saturday afternoon and decided that Sunday morning was the day for SfSB #2.<\/p>\n

Putting all of the blocks on the floor and looking at them worked pretty well last time, so I did that again. I found that they logically divided themselves into 2 groups (generally right and left of the photo). Most of the blocks on the left are Sawtooth Stars and I decided to group them into one quilt. I saved the Stars on the right for the last quilt.<\/p>\n

\"Auditioning<\/a>
Auditioning Fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once I had selected the blocks, I laid them out on some fabric that Sandy sent just to get an idea of what I was facing.<\/p>\n

I could see right away that there would be a lot more open space in this quilt, because I didn’t have as many blocks left. This looks more like a starry night sky, I think.<\/p>\n

The quilt didn’t really end up like this at all, but it was a starting point.<\/p>\n

\"Borders<\/a>
Borders and Layout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I could see from the layout above that I needed some of the blocks with the light background in lower corner.<\/p>\n

More rearranging…<\/p>\n

This is a technique that I call improvisational piecing. TFQ and I have used this process when working together on a quilt called She had to have her Latte<\/em><\/a>, which was kind of a precursor to the Tarts Come to Tea<\/em><\/a>. Isn’t it strange how I can relate all of my quilts to each other?<\/p>\n

I kept rearranging disparate sized blocks and adding coping strips, corners and strips until the pieces fit together. This process is not for the faint of heart.<\/p>\n

\"Rearranging<\/a>
Rearranging Process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Making<\/a>
Making Progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I decide where I am going to start and then march down or across the quilt.In this case, I started from the top and moved towards the bottom. I decided to put almost all of the blocks on point, so I added triangle corners to them. I also filled in the spaces with large pieces of fabric.<\/p>\n

\"SfSB#2<\/a>
SfSB#2 Finished Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was able to finish the top last night. I wanted to get the parts off of my design floor and I didn’t want to have to remember what went where. There was a lot of partial seaming, so it was important to me to get the pieces together correctly.<\/p>\n

As you can see, I added a few pinwheel blocks in different sizes. I was inspired by the very center of TFQ’s block (upper right), though I realized that I didn’t make them exactly like hers.<\/p>\n

My first thought after sewing on the last line of blocks (right) and looking at the whole piece was that it needed a border. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ‘paint was barely dry’ on SfSB #1, but I got busy putting the Stars for San Bruno #2 quilt together on Sunday. I had done a few smaller projects on Friday and Saturday afternoon and decided that Sunday morning was the day for SfSB #2. Putting all of the blocks on the floor and … Continue reading “Stars for San Bruno #2 in progress”<\/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":[400],"tags":[355,331,124],"class_list":["post-9590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-400","tag-doing-good","tag-piecing","tag-stars-for-san-bruno-project"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590","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=9590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63947,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9590\/revisions\/63947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}