{"id":272,"date":"2016-07-21T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=272"},"modified":"2016-07-18T18:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T22:41:38","slug":"in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress &#8211; Hugs &#038; Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I designed these two blocks in EQ7 and I finally got around to making some test blocks a couple of weeks ago:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"274\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt\/img_2853\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?fit=1656%2C1656\" data-orig-size=\"1656,1656\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1468067895&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000150988977805&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2853\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?fit=663%2C663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=663%2C663\" alt=\"IMG_2853\" width=\"663\" height=\"663\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=982%2C982 982w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?resize=400%2C400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?w=1656 1656w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2853.jpg?w=1326 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the last quilt market, I bought a fat quarter bundle of the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/storefront.unitednotions.com\/storefrontCommerce\/attributebrowse.do;jsessionid=75E7470741BFC321E996C0FD9FF8F2F5.storefront8080?selectedAttributeRefinementString=&#038;path=Guest\/\/\/\/Designers\/\/\/\/Kate%20Spain\/\/\/\/Grand%20Canal\">Grand Canal line by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics<\/a> and I had been searching for a pattern to use it on. I think this one will be perfect! I&#8217;m going to make one X block and one O block out of each fat quarter. I need 56 total blocks, so I&#8217;ll be using 28 fat quarters. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the fat quarters I chose from the bundle:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"262\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt\/img_3013\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?fit=2354%2C2354\" data-orig-size=\"2354,2354\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1468695328&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;40&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?fit=663%2C663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=663%2C663\" alt=\"IMG_3013\" width=\"663\" height=\"663\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=982%2C982 982w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?resize=400%2C400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?w=1326 1326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3013.jpg?w=1989 1989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I pressed all the fat quarters today and I&#8217;m hoping to get started cutting tomorrow. I can&#8217;t wait! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I designed these two blocks in EQ7 and I finally got around to making some test blocks a couple of weeks ago: After the last quilt market, I bought a fat quarter bundle of the upcoming Grand Canal line by Kate Spain for Moda Fabrics and I had been searching for a&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Progress &#8211; Hugs &#038; Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,65,64,66,48,7],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-progress","tag-aurifil","tag-grand-canal","tag-hugs-kisses","tag-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal","tag-kate-spain","tag-moda-fabrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_3014.jpg?fit=2448%2C2448","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-4o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}