{"id":1492,"date":"2010-10-29T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/you-have-to-see-this\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:50:31","slug":"you-have-to-see-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/29\/you-have-to-see-this\/","title":{"rendered":"You have to see this!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been doing much quilting for the past few days, but I know someone who has. \ud83d\ude09 Some of you know that I have a twin sister who began quilting just about five years ago or so. She’s only very recently begun machine quilting, but what a job she’s doing! I guess my love of feathers is something that runs in the family, too, because she’s doing some absolutely gorgeous ones. You should see her most recent ones: go here<\/a> to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been doing much quilting for the past few days, but I know someone who has. \ud83d\ude09 Some of you know that I have a twin sister who began quilting just about five years ago or so. She’s only very recently begun machine quilting, but what a job she’s doing! I guess my love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[226,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1492","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-motion","7":"tag-feathers","8":"tag-quilting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-o4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1572,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/09\/feathers\/","url_meta":{"origin":1492,"position":0},"title":"Feathers!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Have I mentioned yet that I love feathers? 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She's most famous for her quilts made from old linens, and we saw lots of those at Thursday evening's guild meeting \u2014 they're drop-dead gorgeous! 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