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I do like curves! Not on me<\/i> so much, but on my quilts. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve been making some Drunkard’s Path blocks in two sizes, and this is what they looked like on my cool design wall<\/a> this morning. Since then, I’ve rearranged them a little to distribute the colors a bit more evenly, but I forgot to take another picture after I’d done that. Now I’m happily sewing them together! \ud83d\ude42 I’ll post more photos as I finish piecing and then quilting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I do like curves! Not on me so much, but on my quilts. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve been making some Drunkard’s Path blocks in two sizes, and this is what they looked like on my cool design wall this morning. Since then, I’ve rearranged them a little to distribute the colors a bit more evenly, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771,"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":[204,217,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-1462","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":"tag-sewing-room","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3345.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1465,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/new-blocks-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1462,"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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