{"id":1319,"date":"2013-09-21T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/another-drunkards-path\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:52:39","slug":"another-drunkards-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/21\/another-drunkards-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Drunkard’s Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a year ago, I took a class at a retreat. I wasn’t very happy with the class, so I simply put the pieces away until recently, when I decided to finish the quilt on general principle. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve finished piecing the two-part wedges into the “bow tie” sections and am now going to begin putting the blocks together. Then it will, once again, be a matter of deciding what sort of borders and quilting to do! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Those little whiteish bits you see in the quarter-sections are labels so that I know where each one belongs. LOL! Any ideas for a name for this one?<\/div>\n

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Over a year ago, I took a class at a retreat. I wasn’t very happy with the class, so I simply put the pieces away until recently, when I decided to finish the quilt on general principle. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve finished piecing the two-part wedges into the “bow tie” sections and am now going to begin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":501,"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":[3],"tags":[204,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-drunkards-path","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_0370.jpg?fit=640%2C560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-lh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1462,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/almost-circles\/","url_meta":{"origin":1319,"position":0},"title":"“Almost” circles","author":"Sandy","date":"March 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I do like curves! 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