{"id":488,"date":"2009-07-17T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2009-07-17T12:21:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T17:21:33","slug":"one-down-one-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"One Down, One To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished the hand sewing on the last coneflowers piece. It needs to be shipped out today to the East Cobb Quilters in GA where I will teach a two day workshop in September.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-485\" title=\"bwconeflowers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bwconeflowers.jpg\" alt=\"bwconeflowers\" width=\"450\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bwconeflowers.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bwconeflowers-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bwconeflowers-300x299.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This one features commercial prints rather than the batiks that I love to use for these flowers, but I thought it was important to show that they should be considered as a viable option for this pattern. The pattern suggests using the accent fabric as the binding so I did, though I might prefer black on this one. You should always decide for yourself and dare to be different!<\/p>\n<p>I have started the last sample that needs to go to GA., orange this time. There is not a lot of time left!  The first day I got this much done:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-486\" title=\"orangecf_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_1.jpg\" alt=\"orangecf_1\" width=\"450\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_1-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like that the stem shows up better in this one because there is better contrast behind it.  Having nice darks behind the flower gives depth and makes the flowers stand out. But yesterday I had to go get a perm and do some other stuff, so I only made a little progress:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-487\" title=\"orangecf_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_2.jpg\" alt=\"orangecf_2\" width=\"450\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/orangecf_2-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I finished the hand sewing on the last coneflowers piece. It needs to be shipped out today to the East Cobb Quilters in GA where I will teach a two day workshop in September. This one features commercial prints rather than the batiks that I love to use for these flowers, but I [&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":[136],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coneflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}