{"id":3046,"date":"2017-06-04T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:33:13","slug":"convex-illusions-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/06\/04\/convex-illusions-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Convex Illusions — finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Pieced, quilted, bound and labelled — it’s done! I’ve mentioned before that I’m not pleased with the way I quilted this, but finished is good, so I refuse to wallow in regrets; I’m happy that it’s finished. The pattern came from KwiltArt<\/a>, where you can find a wide variety of quilt designs that feature optical illusions. They’re amazing!<\/p>\n

This overall view of the quilt, held up by my mostly-hidden husband, illustrates how effective the illusion is in this pattern — I love it! (As always, clicking on the photos will enlarge them.)<\/p>\n

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This is a portion of the center. See those circles with designs in them? That looked\u00a0so\u00a0<\/em>good in my plan — not so much on the quilt itself. :S I probably should have stuck to stitching in the ditch between each row.<\/p>\n

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There are two sets of pieced triangles surrounding that central portion. The first set is mostly dark, and the second is mostly light. I quilted them similarly with just minor differences. Again, not the wisest choices.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I still like the outer border, which you can see here (sort of — black on black is hard to see!), along with the narrower inner border and the corded piping I added next to the binding.<\/p>\n

As disappointed as I am with the quilting, I did get some very good practice using rulers to do free motion quilting, so there was a silver lining to the story. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pieced, quilted, bound and labelled — it’s done! I’ve mentioned before that I’m not pleased with the way I quilted this, but finished is good, so I refuse to wallow in regrets; I’m happy that it’s finished. The pattern came from KwiltArt, where you can find a wide variety of quilt designs that feature optical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3,299],"tags":[226,48,217,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-3046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-piecing","9":"category-quilting","10":"tag-feathers","11":"tag-freemotion","12":"tag-piecing-2","13":"tag-quilting","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_2272-1.jpg?fit=1194%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-N8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1493,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/swirling-branches-is-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":3046,"position":0},"title":"Swirling Branches is done","author":"Sandy","date":"October 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quite two weeks ago, I posted this finished top. 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