{"id":2248,"date":"2018-05-06T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=2248"},"modified":"2018-05-21T20:44:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:44:19","slug":"sts-3-purple-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/sts-3-purple-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"STS &#8211; #3 &#8211; Purple Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2249\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-6-2018_Purple-Plus_blocks-on-design-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2249\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-6-2018_Purple-Plus_blocks-on-design-wall-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"Purple Plus - blocks on the design wall\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-6-2018_Purple-Plus_blocks-on-design-wall-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-6-2018_Purple-Plus_blocks-on-design-wall-335x300.jpg 335w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/May-6-2018_Purple-Plus_blocks-on-design-wall.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple Plus &#8211; blocks on the design wall<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While I was cutting the pieces for <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/sts-2-purple-tempest\/\">my Purple Tempest quilt<\/a>, I cut the squares for this quilt top.\u00a0 This is Purple Plus and it will be the third quilt that I am working on in my quest to STS (Slash the Stash).<\/p>\n<p>I got the idea for this quilt from a blog post by <a href=\"http:\/\/coraquilts.blogspot.ca\/2012\/06\/curious-nature-for-boys.html\">Cora Quilts<\/a>.\u00a0 This quilt top is made from 4.5&#8243; squares (19 rows of 16 squares each) &#8211; using a layout \/ pattern by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.incolororder.com\/2010\/09\/plus-quilt-tutorial.html\">Jeni Baker of In Color Order<\/a>.\u00a0 This quilt should finish about 64&#8243; x\u00a0 75&#8243; which should make it a nice lap size.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, this is just squares on my design wall.\u00a0 Construction of this quilt definitely requires a design wall to lay everything out to make sure your light, medium, and dark fabrics are balanced in placement.\u00a0 Once I have made my final decision on my layout I can proceed with sewing the blocks together into rows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was cutting the pieces for my Purple Tempest quilt, I cut the squares for this quilt top.\u00a0 This is Purple Plus and it will be the third quilt that I am working on in my quest to STS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/sts-3-purple-plus\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,362,365,337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plus","category-purple","category-purple-plus","category-sts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2252,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248\/revisions\/2252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}