{"id":9920,"date":"2012-07-02T07:20:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=9920"},"modified":"2012-07-02T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:20:24","slug":"playing-quilt-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20120702-9920.htm","title":{"rendered":"Playing quilt designer"},"content":{"rendered":"

What with my brother and sister-in-law’s rushed wedding only two weeks after their engagement, we didn’t have time to prepare their wedding quilt in advance.<\/p>\n

What’s more, unlike with my other sister-in-law, I didn’t really know enough about Kaytee’s taste to be able to choose a pattern and colors for her.<\/p>\n

I figured we’d go with a log cabin design and that I’d let Kaytee pick which macro-design to use. What I wasn’t think about was how Kaytee, not being a quilter, would have a hard time visualizing the finished product from the schematics in the book I’d handed her–which meant that instead of looking at the schematics, she looked at the photos.<\/p>\n

She fell in love with a particular design that, unfortunately, contained over 50 patchwork pieces per block and didn’t lend itself well to strip piecing. <\/p>\n

My mom and I both looked over the pattern to see if we thought there was ANY possibility that we could do it–and we concluded that it was impossible.<\/p>\n

So, I trotted off to the library to look through every quilting book and magazine there. I was looking for something similar to what she’d chosen–but that would simpler to put together.<\/p>\n

I found a design and got to tweaking, working up a dozen different variations to present to Kaytee for a decision.<\/p>\n

I tried a modified wedding ring design (made with square and rectangular patches instead of curved lines).<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

I adjusted it to have a slightly different colored border.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

I set the blocks on point.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

I tried one variation on a border.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

I tried another variation on the border.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

Now a completely different variation for the border.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

What if I make the main body of the quilt a different color?<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

Or maybe if I put a sash between the main body of the quilt and the border?<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

On a whim, I went back to variation 5 and tried it with two different colors.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

Ooo–I liked how that made the ring pattern pop. I tried the same technique on variation 6.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

By now my juices were really flowing. What if I change the border so and adjust the rings so and…<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

I was on a roll, but I really needed to get off the computer and help Mom prepare for the party we were throwing to introduce Kaytee (sans John) to the family.<\/p>\n

Right before the party got into full swing, I broke the bad news to Kaytee. We wouldn’t be able to do the quilt she’d originally picked out. She was disappointed until I brought her into Mom’s office to see the options we’d come up with. <\/p>\n

It didn’t take her long to pick one–and not long afterwards, I was adjusting the colors to what Kaytee’d identified as her preferences. <\/p>\n

Ta-da!<\/p>\n

We have a plan. Mom and Kaytee will be shopping later today for blue and brown fabrics.<\/p>\n

\"Quilt<\/p>\n

(I have a feeling this little pattern is going to become a new favorite of mine–I’m going to want to make a half dozen modified-double-wedding-ring quilts so that I can see how every variation looks in real life!)<\/p>\n

So tell me, if someone offered you these options for a quilt, which would you choose? What colors would you go with? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What with my brother and sister-in-law’s rushed wedding only two weeks after their engagement, we didn’t have time to prepare their wedding quilt in advance. What’s more, unlike with my other sister-in-law, I didn’t really know enough about Kaytee’s taste to be able to choose a pattern and colors for her. I figured we’d go … Read more Playing quilt designer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}