{"id":1463,"date":"2011-03-05T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/a-nice-touch\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:03:41","slug":"a-nice-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/05\/a-nice-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"A nice touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Our local guild began doing something new at last year&#8217;s show. Each person who has a quilt that earned a ribbon is also given a little badge to wear. It&#8217;s really nice to look at your friends and immediately know what they&#8217;ve won. These are samples of those badges, though there are also special ones for Best of Show and some other special awards.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3341.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3341-300x181.jpg?resize=320%2C193\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I think it&#8217;s a nice touch, don&#8217;t you?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our local guild began doing something new at last year&#8217;s show. Each person who has a quilt that earned a ribbon is also given a little badge to wear. It&#8217;s really nice to look at your friends and immediately know what they&#8217;ve won. These are samples of those badges, though there are also special ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772,"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":[299],"tags":[209],"class_list":{"0":"post-1463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-quilt-show","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/IMG_3341.jpg?fit=640%2C386&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5040,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/05\/05\/home-from-paducah\/","url_meta":{"origin":1463,"position":0},"title":"Home from Paducah","author":"Sandy","date":"May 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"No, not me! ;) But my quilt is home! 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