{"id":2785,"date":"2015-06-24T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2015-06-24T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T01:46:37","slug":"wip-wednesday-2015-06-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2015\/06\/24\/wip-wednesday-2015-06-24\/","title":{"rendered":"WIP Wednesday &#8211; 2015.06.24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I made a border for the June assignment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouvermodernquiltguild.ca\/blog\/round-robin-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver MQG Round Robin<\/a> project. There are 11 of us participating.\u00a0 We each brought our own starting block to the February meeting, and we each left with someone else\u2019s project.\u00a0 Each month, we receive instructions for the next step &#8211; adding one to four borders, with a specific theme.\u00a0 We take the project back to the next meeting, and pick up another person&#8217;s project for that month.\u00a0 At the January 2016 meeting, our quilt tops will have been added to by each participant, and we will get our own quilt top back.\u00a0 Until then, the projects are stored in plain paper bags, so that the progress on each quilt top will be a big surprise at the end.<\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain the secrecy, I generally can&#8217;t show photos of the border I am working on, because I often include some of the original fabrics, or the color palette is very specific, and a photo would spoil the secret.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The theme this month is Stars, and our assignment is to add one border.\u00a0 As it happens, this month I&#8217;m using all fabrics from my stash and the colors are not specific to the project, so I don&#8217;t think anyone will be able to guess whose project this belongs to.\u00a0 I used a paper-pieced pattern for a wonky star that I designed several years ago.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg?resize=640%2C164\" alt=\"DSCN4998\" width=\"640\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg?resize=1024%2C263&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg?resize=300%2C77&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSCN4998.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today, I\u2019m linking up with these blogs \u2013 click on the links below, where you\u2019ll find many other creative projects to inspire you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freshlypieced.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1109\/5159705972_49be14a673_m.jpg?resize=91%2C91\" alt=\"WIP Wednesday at Freshly Pieced\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"W_I_P__Wednesday___________Link-up___@_The_Needle_&amp;____Thread_Network\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/W_I_P__Wednesday___________Link-up___%40_The_Needle_____Thread_Network.png?resize=138%2C91\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/estheraliu.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i1121.photobucket.com\/albums\/l501\/estheraliu\/esthersblog180pix.jpg?resize=125%2C87\" alt=\"Esther\u2019s Blog\" width=\"125\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a> \u00a0 <a title=\"Sew Fresh Quilts\" href=\"http:\/\/sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mqqPpWeFz7A\/UtyR1HYzgmI\/AAAAAAAADjA\/MZ84gVa9KXk\/s1600\/LinkyBees.jpg?resize=77%2C87\" alt=\"Sew Fresh Quilts\" width=\"77\" height=\"87\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I made a border for the June assignment of the Vancouver MQG Round Robin project. There are 11 of us participating.\u00a0 We each brought our own starting block to the February meeting, and we each left with someone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2015\/06\/24\/wip-wednesday-2015-06-24\/\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[15,58,18,67],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-quilts","category-on-my-design-wall","category-wip-wednesday","tag-modern-quilt","tag-round-robin","tag-vmqg","tag-wip-wednesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-IV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2553,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2015\/02\/11\/wip-wednesday-2015-02-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":2785,"position":0},"title":"WIP Wednesday &#8211; 2015.02.11","author":"TerryAske","date":"February 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"It feels good to be back in the studio and getting things done. 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