{"id":1051,"date":"2013-05-16T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:06:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:06:32","slug":"on-my-design-wall-2013-05-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/16\/on-my-design-wall-2013-05-16\/","title":{"rendered":"On my design wall &#8211; 2013.05.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got back to work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/01\/on-my-design-wall-plans-for-may-2013-05-01\/\">red bench art quilt<\/a>.\u00a0 I <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1053\" alt=\"Terry Aske - pre-quilting sky and water\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg?resize=78%2C162\" width=\"78\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg?resize=145%2C300&amp;ssl=1 145w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg?resize=497%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 497w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg?w=1870&amp;ssl=1 1870w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-pre-quilting-sky-and-water.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 78px) 100vw, 78px\" \/><\/a>layered the back and the batting, then positioned the sky, distant hills and water, and pre-quilted them.\u00a0 I may need to add more quilting later after I&#8217;ve quilted around them, but I found this easier than quilting them after all the foreground elements have been added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1052\" alt=\"Terry Aske _ auditioning foliage fabrics\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg?resize=248%2C300\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg?resize=248%2C300&amp;ssl=1 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg?resize=849%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 849w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Terry-Aske-_-auditioning-foliage-fabrics.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve fused the foliage at the top of the quilt (and sure enough the sky looks like it will need some additional quilting), and I&#8217;ve auditioned a number of fabrics for the rest of the foliage.\u00a0 You will recall that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/03\/on-my-design-wall-more-plans-for-may-2013-05-03\/\">pre-assembled the red bench <\/a>a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 I&#8217;m satisfied with all these fabrics &#8211; the only thing I plan to add are some long grasses under the bench.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m heading up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/cqaquiltcanada.blogspot.ca\/\">Canadian Quilt Conference in Penticton<\/a> for a couple of days, so I&#8217;ll be fusing and quilting this quilt next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got back to work on the red bench art quilt.\u00a0 I layered the back and the batting, then positioned the sky, distant hills and water, and pre-quilted them.\u00a0 I may need to add more quilting later after I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/16\/on-my-design-wall-2013-05-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[14,33],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilts","category-on-my-design-wall","tag-art-quilt","tag-red-bench"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-gX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1027,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/08\/on-my-design-wall-2013-05-08\/","url_meta":{"origin":1051,"position":0},"title":"On my design wall &#8211; 2013.05.08","author":"TerryAske","date":"May 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've finished my fossil quilt for the SAQA Western Canada Burgess Shale fossil quilt project. 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Since then, I fused the tree trunks to the background leafy fabric, then layered it with batting and backing, and quilted it with vertical straight lines. Tree trunks fused to leafy background\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art quilts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art quilts","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/category\/art-quilts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/tree-trunks-fused.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1103,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/05\/27\/off-my-design-wall-red-bench-finished-2013-05-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":1051,"position":3},"title":"Off my design wall &#8211; red bench finished &#8211; 2013.05.27","author":"TerryAske","date":"May 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've finished the red bench quilt.\u00a0 I'm going to call it 'Solitude'. 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