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Remember this post<\/a>? Since then, I made the painful decision to redo that border, so I bought more red  fabric for the narrow strips and more white for the background. This time everything seems to have gone much better, as the fabric didn’t bleed as I spritzed out the blue markings. Yay! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Once I’d then appliqu\u00e9d this border onto the center square, the next step was to cut out a lot <\/i>of colored circles to scatter onto that border. I’m now at the stage of hand appliqu\u00e9ing those circles into place. There are a lot of circles to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember this post? Since then, I made the painful decision to redo that border, so I bought more red  fabric for the narrow strips and more white for the background. This time everything seems to have gone much better, as the fabric didn’t bleed as I spritzed out the blue markings. Yay! \ud83d\ude42 Once I’d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"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-1297","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\/03\/IMG_0731.jpg?fit=640%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-kV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1300,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/02\/28\/uh-oh\/","url_meta":{"origin":1297,"position":0},"title":"Uh-oh …","author":"Sandy","date":"February 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working on my appliqu\u00e9 project from the Karen Kay Buckley class I took at the Phoenix AQS show earlier this month. 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