{"id":2669,"date":"2014-02-09T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2014-02-09T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T14:29:55","slug":"1994-2014-innovations-is-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2669","title":{"rendered":"1994-2014-Innovations is 20!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never imagined when I started INNOVATIONS that it would have been this good!<\/p>\n<p>Every year when I finish up the books for taxes one of the things I enjoy is to tally up all of the sales for the year and for each pattern individually. Since it&#8217;s publication in 1997, Third Weekend In October has been my very best seller and continues to excel, having sold, over the years, 31,399 patterns! This is the only pattern that I have had as many as 5,000 printed at a time.<\/p>\n<p>It was a rainy Sunday afternoon when I sat on the sofa with a piece of graph paper and designed this quilt to look like leaf litter on a sunny autumn day. Notice the slash of blue that accents the yellow\/orange leaves diagonally from upper left to lower right against the reds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThirdWeekend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2676\" alt=\"ThirdWeekend\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThirdWeekend-232x300.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThirdWeekend-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThirdWeekend.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being from New England, I had always wanted to do a maple leaf quilt, but wanted mine to be different &#8211; not the usual repeated traditional block. I was designing for a one of a kind contest quilt, never intended to be a pattern, but after hundreds of requests I finally gave in and published the pattern. And thank goodness I did! It&#8217;s been amazing. Time marches on and I probably will not re order as it is time to slow the business down.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you already have &#8220;Third Weekend&#8221;, but if not it is still available over on the pattern page until this printing sells out. It&#8217;s 84 x 104&#8243;, a true scrap quilt . Lots of pieces, but all straight seams, partially paper pieced to make the odd angles easy.\u00a0 I have never raised my prices, so this is a bargain at $7.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never imagined when I started INNOVATIONS that it would have been this good! Every year when I finish up the books for taxes one of the things I enjoy is to tally up all of the sales for the year and for each pattern individually. Since it&#8217;s publication in 1997, Third Weekend In October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,29,30,46],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-contests","tag-fabric","tag-patterns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}