{"id":1464,"date":"2011-03-04T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/im-so-excited\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:03:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:03:23","slug":"im-so-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/04\/im-so-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m so excited!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our local quilt show opened today and will be open through Sunday. This year’s show judge was really good to me, as I won three ribbons<\/i>! Wow! I’m thrilled! Here are my “babies” with their fancy additions:<\/div>\n

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Some time ago I made a Baravelle Spiral quilt from a pattern designed by a very good online friend, Pat Storey. Her book is Geometrical Quilts<\/a><\/i>. I used her pattern to make a quilt for our guild challenge that year; we had to use specific black and white prints, as well as any other blacks and whites and only one other color. We also had to add beading. This is what I made, and it took a third place ribbon in our show! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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My miniature Trip Around the World (about 21″ square) is next on the list. I made this one after a very good friend gave me a set of strips of batiks. I love the colors in it, and apparently the judge didn’t hate them, as she awarded it a second place ribbon. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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Last, but best of all, is my Winding Ways quilt. I’ve been waiting for the show so as to hope for the chance to take a photo of the whole finished quilt (remember this post<\/a>?). I certainly had my chance today, as one of our members who was acting as a white-glove lady kindly held some other quilts out of the way while I snapped a quick photo. You can just barely see the edge of the first-place ribbon<\/i> that’s hanging with this one! I’m so pleased, especially since my friend Gerda did such a great job of quilting this big quilt for me. \ud83d\ude00 <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our local quilt show opened today and will be open through Sunday. This year’s show judge was really good to me, as I won three ribbons! Wow! I’m thrilled! Here are my “babies” with their fancy additions: Some time ago I made a Baravelle Spiral quilt from a pattern designed by a very good online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773,"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":[209,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-1464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-quilt-show","9":"tag-winding-ways","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Baravelle-Spiral.jpg?fit=1024%2C892&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4638,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/ribbon-weave-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1464,"position":0},"title":"Ribbon Weave Quilt","author":"Sandy","date":"December 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I started another quilt (of course!), this one called Ribbon Weave, by Basic Grey. 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