{"id":1342,"date":"2013-05-27T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/drunkards-path-progress\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:47:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:47:42","slug":"drunkards-path-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/27\/drunkards-path-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunkard&#8217;s Path progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_0227.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_0227-300x225.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not too long ago, I showed you some <a href=\"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/10\/next-on-the-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">fabrics<\/a> that are to be in my next quilt. Yesterday I began making the blocks and continued today. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the way they&#8217;re turning out, though there&#8217;s one at the lower left in the photo that looks pretty wonky. However, that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s sitting on top of a lot of seams in the blocks beneath \u2014 it&#8217;s a smooth curve, I promise! The larger blocks aren&#8217;t hard to do, but the smaller ones are a bit trickier. Still, they&#8217;re coming along nicely. I have another set of small ones to do \u2014 perhaps tomorrow \u2014 before I begin cutting sashing and putting everything together. No rush, though! And I may need to make more blocks if I don&#8217;t have the &#8220;right&#8221; mixture of fabrics already put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, I showed you some fabrics that are to be in my next quilt. Yesterday I began making the blocks and continued today. I&#8217;m pretty happy with the way they&#8217;re turning out, though there&#8217;s one at the lower left in the photo that looks pretty wonky. However, that&#8217;s because it&#8217;s sitting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":547,"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-1342","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\/05\/IMG_0227.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-lE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1465,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/new-blocks-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1342,"position":0},"title":"New blocks","author":"Sandy","date":"March 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've always liked curved blocks: Drunkard's Path, New York Beauty, Winding Ways, etc. In fact, I've already made two projects from the Drunkard's Path block, I've done some NY Beauties, and I recently finished my Winding Ways quilt (photo coming soon, I hope!). 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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. ;) I've finished piecing the two-part wedges into the \"bow tie\" sections and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Piecing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Piecing","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/piecing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_0370.jpg?fit=640%2C560&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_0370.jpg?fit=640%2C560&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_0370.jpg?fit=640%2C560&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1461,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/09\/our-sleepyhead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1342,"position":3},"title":"Our sleepyhead","author":"Sandy","date":"March 9, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night and the night before, my husband pointed out Bisou soundly sleeping on our couch. She spends quite a bit of each evening dozing, then comes to find me when she decides it's really bedtime. 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