{"id":400,"date":"2013-04-28T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colormequilted.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2013-04-28T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:25:33","slug":"diamonds-rust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/quilting\/diamonds-rust\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds &#038; Rust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diamonds-and-rust.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diamonds-and-rust-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"Diamonds and Rust Quilt\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diamonds-and-rust-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diamonds-and-rust-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/diamonds-and-rust.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a>Diamonds &amp; Rust might seem familiar to some of you; I designed it when I was a finalist in the 2012 McCall&#8217;s Quilt Design Star contest. I was intent on quilting it myself for the upcoming show and that&#8217;s exactly what I did.<\/p>\n<p>I always get a bit nervous when I sit down to quilt\u00a0a piece. It&#8217;s almost like I forget that I\u00a0know how to\u00a0quilt on my home machine (a fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/content.janome.com\/index.cfm\/Machines\/Sewing-Quilting\/Horizon_7700QCP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janome 7700<\/a>!). I&#8217;ve done it many times before and once I start quilting I always enjoy it. I just have to get beyond my initial jitters.<\/p>\n<p>I used a combination of stitch in the ditch, gentle curves with my walking foot (my Janome has an open toe Accufeed foot which gives great visibility) and free motion quilting. I tried not to overdo the free motion quilting, because there&#8217;s a lot going on with the design of the quilt. I used it in the yellow background in the center, the lightest blue backgrounds and the teal in the middle border. I did a simple stipple and I&#8217;m really pleased with how it came out.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few days I should have photos of it hanging in the show, as well as the quilt I featured in my last blog entry.<\/p>\n<p>I dropped off both quilts today and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing them hanging with\u00a0the other 400 quilts on Tuesday when the show opens! Several friends are showing quilts and I hope to post photos of their lovely work too, if they give me the okey dokey.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamonds &amp; Rust might seem familiar to some of you; I designed it when I was a finalist in the 2012 McCall&#8217;s Quilt Design Star contest. I was intent on quilting it myself for the upcoming show and that&#8217;s exactly what I did. I always get a bit nervous when I sit down to quilt\u00a0a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.detray.com\/colormequilted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}