{"id":1292,"date":"2014-04-20T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/more-fiesta-progress\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T21:00:34","slug":"more-fiesta-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/04\/20\/more-fiesta-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fiesta progress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve just finished appliqu\u00e9ing the multicolored, multi-sized circles to my Fiesta (Block 3) project! Yay! This has been fun, so I can definitely see doing more hand appliqu\u00e9 in the future. Now I just have to decide how I want to quilt this so as to finish it up. Of course, I also have three or four other projects to quilt, so which one will be first is still up for debate. \ud83d\ude09 In the meantime, here is the finished Fiesta (Block 3) top. In the interest of full disclosure, I did the radiating red strips by machine appliqu\u00e9, but the rest, including the set-in central square, was by hand. In case you haven’t read my previous posts on this subject, Karen Kay Buckley designed it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve just finished appliqu\u00e9ing the multicolored, multi-sized circles to my Fiesta (Block 3) project! Yay! This has been fun, so I can definitely see doing more hand appliqu\u00e9 in the future. Now I just have to decide how I want to quilt this so as to finish it up. Of course, I also have three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":441,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[215,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-1292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-applique","8":"tag-applique-2","9":"tag-fiesta-block-3","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_0833.jpg?fit=1024%2C1021&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-kQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1302,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/13\/handwork-machine-work-footwork\/","url_meta":{"origin":1292,"position":0},"title":"Handwork, Machine Work, Footwork","author":"Sandy","date":"February 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week I was lucky enough to be able to attend my very first AQS quilt show; this was the one held in Phoenix. 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