{"id":551,"date":"2012-11-16T22:20:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=551"},"modified":"2013-03-12T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:48:10","slug":"pyramids-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/pyramids-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyramids Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>My quilt group have an exhibition biennially; we use it as an opportunity to raise money for charity and like to choose a small local charity rather than a large national charity. We don\u2019t raise much but a little often goes a long way for a small charity, and makes a real and tangible difference. We always create a group quilt to raffle and to publicise the forthcoming exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33241.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-553\" title=\"pyramid quilt\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33241-294x300.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33241-294x300.jpg 294w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33241-1004x1024.jpg 1004w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33241.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This design was presented as a possible group project to create a quilt to raffle, as a member of the committee at the time I took the pattern and volunteered to give it a trial run, to see if it would work as a group quilt. There is one simple piece to cut, and to achieve an optical illusion similar to the tumbling blocks design, it\u2019s necessary to chose fabrics in light, dark and medium tones, one of each tone is then sewn together to produce a triangle; placing the light, dark and medium in the same position in each block to give the effect of a pyramid viewed from above.It\u2019s important always to have the three tones in the same position because the 3D effect of the pyramids only works if the light appears to be coming from the same angle across the whole surface of the quilt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Quilting-detail-of-pyramid-quilt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-641\" title=\"Quilting detail of pyramid quilt\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Quilting-detail-of-pyramid-quilt-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Quilting-detail-of-pyramid-quilt-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Quilting-detail-of-pyramid-quilt.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Although the triangles are put together in rows one pattern which also emerges is the hexagon; it was the hexagon I used as inspiration for my quilting design, as can be seen where it extends into the border.The design never made it as a group\u00a0quilt, there were just too many possible variables, group quilts work best when the variables are kept to a minimum, this pattern required hand drawing of pieces round templates, cutting with scissors not rotary cutting, there would be fabric placement variables, seam allowance variables\u2026.. etc\u2026 etc. No there were just too many possible ways in which blocks made by many individuals would fail to go together neatly to produce a quality finished article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3328.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-554\" title=\"detail of the pyramid quilt\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3328-298x300.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3328-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3328-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_3328-1018x1024.jpg 1018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 85vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless I liked the finished article, so much so I began to make another quilt, from the same design but with a limited palette of just three fabrics, but somehow, somewhere I lost the template, and the impetus to finish, so for years I had a number of cut pieces and a bag of bits, but no template. The original pattern came from an Australian Quilt magazine, which didn\u2019t belong to me, and I\u2019m not sure who owns it. I have subsequently found another template for the same design in a quilting book I bought in (of all places) ALDI. Maybe I\u2019ll get round to finishing that quilt, or maybe not, the thing is \u2026 the moment has passed.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33271.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"more detail of the pyramid quilt\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_33271.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the pattern and volunteered to give it a trial run, to see if it would work as a group quilt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[9,944,13,10,33,12,16,8,35,942,6,14,7,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}