{"id":4871,"date":"2022-10-02T14:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4871"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T21:54:36","slug":"gemstone-quilt-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/02\/gemstone-quilt-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemstone quilt block"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"quarter-section<\/a>Last week our local quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada<\/a>, hosted award-winning quilter MJ Kinman<\/a> for a wonderful lecture at our quarterly meeting, followed by two days of classes. I took one of the classes, Bite-Size Gems, where we learned how to “translate” a picture of a gemstone into a pattern for a quilt or quilt block. We all worked on the same design for the class, however, to maximize our time. The technique uses a different way of paper-piecing from the usual. The design is made up of four blocks, and — like everyone else — I finished one of those in class, which you can see here. I have three more to make in order to finish the little quilt; mine will be a ruby (I hope!), though there was a huge variety of color combinations and gems in the blocks the others in the class made. Such fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week our local quilt guild, Desert Quilters of Nevada, hosted award-winning quilter MJ Kinman for a wonderful lecture at our quarterly meeting, followed by two days of classes. I took one of the classes, Bite-Size Gems, where we learned how to “translate” a picture of a gemstone into a pattern for a quilt or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[200,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-4871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-classes","8":"tag-paper-piecing","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1gz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4481,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/05\/16\/tiny-blocks\/","url_meta":{"origin":4871,"position":0},"title":"Tiny blocks","author":"Sandy","date":"May 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The most recent of the online classes I'm taking from Philippa Naylor teaches techniques of making a miniature quilt. 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