{"id":2079,"date":"2013-01-15T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2013-01-15T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T10:49:26","slug":"bright-piecing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2079","title":{"rendered":"Bright Piecing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy cutting out shapes and choosing fabrics for the Doll Quilt Swap 13 which I&#8217;m part of. After seeing all the talent on flickr I went back to the drawing board. The sketches I had made didn&#8217;t really sing to me so I tried again and again to come up with something original that would make an impact. I failed. In the end I went on the internet and found this design:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/bright-piecing\/attachment\/dsc_0002-17\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2081\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2081\" alt=\"EPP Flower for DQS13\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_00021-1024x981.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"593\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It really spoke to me and after printing it out I went to the post office to get it enlarged to A3. They couldn&#8217;t do it quite as large as I wanted it so I went home and drew the design on some paper. This might be an easy job for most people but not for me. I drew, discarded and used many a swear word before I finally finished a drawing in the right size. I&#8217;m incredibly proud of this achievement and have decided that I&#8217;m going to make at least one other mini for myself, probably in slightly more subdued colours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/bright-piecing\/attachment\/dsc_0004-11\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2084\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2084\" alt=\"EPP Progress\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0004-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s how far I&#8217;ve come. I&#8217;ve used some fabrics that I bought on Instagram before Christmas and some Kona solids, Lakehouse Dry Goods black labels and linen from <a title=\"Simply Solids\" href=\"http:\/\/simplysolids.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Simply Solids<\/a>. My partner likes bright colours, text prints and linen and I&#8217;ve tried to accommodate all of those. The flower \/ star is going to be appliqu\u00e9d onto a linen background. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>PS I&#8217;m having some real problems with my photos at the moment. They look in focus with nice bright colours in iPhoto but as soon as I upload them to the blog they become fuzzy and bland. Master won&#8217;t be home till the weekend but I hope he will be able to help me then. I do apologise for the bad quality of my pictures.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Edited to add: Although I searched for the origin of this picture at the time I couldn&#8217;t find who had designed it and where I could find the templates (hence the drawing and swearing). I have since found and purchased the pattern on Craftsy. If you would like to make this beautiful design you can buy it <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"The Girih Tiles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/pattern\/quilting\/home-decor\/girih-tiles-english-paper-piecing-epp\/22003?_ct=fhevybu-fqjjuhdbyrhqho-jyjbu&amp;_ctp=22003\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy cutting out shapes and choosing fabrics for the Doll Quilt Swap 13 which I&#8217;m part of. After seeing all the talent on flickr I went back to the drawing board. The sketches I had made didn&#8217;t really sing to me so I tried again and again to come up with something&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2079\">Continue Reading Bright Piecing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[188,189,358,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}