{"id":87,"date":"2005-08-01T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-08-01T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T12:09:49","slug":"big_idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/big_idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how I was going to do the Eclipse<\/a> quilt in red, yellow, orange and pink for the Modern Quilt-Along<\/a>? Scratch that. I just couldn’t make it look right. I have a new plan though. First off, I’m changing to the Love Beads pattern.
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\"Love<\/center>
\nThen I started thinking about an actual Big Idea. Why did I want to use those colors in the first place? They’re colors that I keep wanting to make a quilt out of (most things I’ve made seem to end up in the blue and green family). At that point I decided to drop the pink and orange from this quilt. I just think it’s going to be necessary for this project.
\nMy next train of thought was to determine what things I love are red and yellow. Flowers, of course!
\nThey were in my wedding bouquet:
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\"Red<\/center>
\nAnd they’re some of my favorites in my yard:
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\"Red<\/center>
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\"Yellow<\/center>
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\"Red<\/center>
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\"Yellow<\/center>
\nI made a list of my favorite red and yellow flowers and picked fabric to represent each one of them:
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\"Love<\/center>
\nThe main color will be similar to the color of my house to represent all of my favorite flowers growing next to my home. I feel content finally with this Big Idea. It’s much more satisfying than my original plan was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how I was going to do the Eclipse quilt in red, yellow, orange and pink for the Modern Quilt-Along? Scratch that. I just couldn’t make it look right. I have a new plan though. First off, I’m changing to the Love Beads pattern. Then I started thinking about an actual Big Idea. Why …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-quilt-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}