{"id":4116,"date":"2011-09-08T04:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2020-09-28T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T11:11:27","slug":"square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/08\/square\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Square!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I buy fabrics that catch my eye from my favorite store.<\/a> In this case I bought some bold patterns by Michael Miller, Sandi Henderson, Denyse Schmidt, and Park Slope. In order to visualize the arrangement of pattern and color, I scanned the fabrics and created thumbnail sketches to scale on my computer. I’ll move and readjust the scans, playing Colorforms<\/em> on my Mac, until I find a pattern I’m happy with. After a lot of cutting and a few early morning sessions at the sewing machine using my sketch as a guide, I had the finished quilt pictured below. It was for a newborn and measured 35″ square.<\/p>\n

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It starts in the sketchbook!<\/p><\/div>\n

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I buy fabrics that catch my eye from my favorite store. In this case I bought some bold patterns by Michael Miller, Sandi Henderson, Denyse Schmidt, and Park Slope. In order to visualize the arrangement of pattern and color, I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[314,538,539,540,20,745,748,747,70,746,3665,25,749,6],"class_list":["post-4116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-baby","tag-denyse-schmidt","tag-designer","tag-fabric","tag-handmade","tag-michael-miller","tag-neddle","tag-park-slope","tag-quilt","tag-sandi-henderson","tag-sewing","tag-sketchbook","tag-thread","tag-tina-garceau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-square","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4438,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/09\/27\/brick-path-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":4116,"position":0},"title":"Brick Path Quilt","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"September 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This was my first attempt at quilting, a gift for a new addition to the family. 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