{"id":1491,"date":"2010-10-30T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/a-ufo-no-longer\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:51:00","slug":"a-ufo-no-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/a-ufo-no-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"A UFO no longer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In July, 2009, I took a fun class from Rose Hughes on making landscape quilts. I say the class was fun, but the technique was definitely not<\/i> something I enjoyed, unfortunately. I’m glad I tried it, but I won’t be doing it again, as far as I can tell. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Anyway, I designed my quilt and even had all of the major construction finished at that time. However, I was supposed to use beads and embroidery to suggest plant life, and I was also supposed to use wool roving to make blossoms on the saguaro cactus I made as a memento of the very long time I lived in Arizona. I’m not much on embellishing, though, so my partially-completed quilt sat on the ironing board in my sewing room until yesterday.<\/p>\n

With the encouragement of my quilting buddy, I decided to finish the quilting on the piece and forget the embellishing. I added a facing instead of binding, and now it’s all finished. Finished, as they say, is good<\/b>. \ud83d\ude42 This is titled “Lonely Saguaro” both because it’s all alone in its setting and because it’s so unlikely to be the start of a series of landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In July, 2009, I took a fun class from Rose Hughes on making landscape quilts. I say the class was fun, but the technique was definitely not something I enjoyed, unfortunately. I’m glad I tried it, but I won’t be doing it again, as far as I can tell. \ud83d\ude09 Anyway, I designed my quilt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":811,"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":[4],"tags":[263,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-1491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-applique","8":"tag-landscape","9":"tag-lonely-saguaro","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lonely-Saguaro.jpg?fit=790%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-o3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4844,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/saguaro-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1491,"position":0},"title":"Saguaro quilt","author":"Sandy","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's finished! 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