{"id":362,"date":"2009-04-16T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T14:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-04-17T06:35:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T11:35:05","slug":"bluebird-top-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Bluebird Top Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bluebird top is done!  I did have to make a few changes and tweak some bits &#8211; like the white on the belly.  White was too white. Off white was too white. I ended up using a piece that was cream with shadings to beige and gray, but it looks pretty white. I also ended up taking that piece out and adding a bit more rust to make a better shape. And a piece on the shoulder needed to be taken out and replaced with a darker blue. It is hard to find that wonderful electric bluebird blue in fabric!\u00a0 I pulled all of the brightest blues I had, some were too green, some were too purple, but I think these work pretty well &#8211; you just can&#8217;t duplicate the brilliance of the real thing! some of these fabrics were printed as water, one had nice linear effects. One was even a blue cabbage! Be open minded when searching for fabric. Everything is darker in real life than what I am seeing on my monitor, but I have learned that my screen tends to  be a little on the light side so I hope you are seeing it correctly!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"bluebird_31\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_31.jpg\" alt=\"bluebird_31\" width=\"499\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_31.jpg 499w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_31-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of the seams are not yet sewn in this photo, and before the final sewing I changed some of the background. It seemed like a darker border on the left would enclose it better.\u00a0 I think that making use of the design wall is so helpful\u00a0 but you have to be willing to toss a piece of\u00a0 fabric or unsew a seam &#8211; really it doesn&#8217;t take that long and is SO worth it! Often the fabric isn&#8217;t even wasted &#8211; in this case I used the lighter piece inside behind the tail where it was more effective. After quilting, I will probably bind this in the dark ferny fabric.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-364\" title=\"bluebird_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_4.jpg\" alt=\"bluebird_4\" width=\"446\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_4.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bluebird_4-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/>He still needs a twinkle in his eye, but that will come later&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bluebird top is done! I did have to make a few changes and tweak some bits &#8211; like the white on the belly. White was too white. Off white was too white. I ended up using a piece that was cream with shadings to beige and gray, but it looks pretty white. I also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,126,30],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-add-new-tag","tag-bluebird","tag-fabric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}