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… and now I’ll need to sandwich and quilt this piece! \ud83d\ude42 The pattern went much more quickly than I’d expected, and I rather like the swirly effect of the skewed log cabin blocks. The pattern says to quilt it by stitching in the ditch, but I’m trying to think of something a little more fun to do instead. Any ideas?<\/div>\n
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… and now I’ll need to sandwich and quilt this piece! \ud83d\ude42 The pattern went much more quickly than I’d expected, and I rather like the swirly effect of the skewed log cabin blocks. The pattern says to quilt it by stitching in the ditch, but I’m trying to think of something a little more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820,"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":[3],"tags":[228],"class_list":{"0":"post-1498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-paper-piecing","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Swirling-Branches-.jpg?fit=836%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1288,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/cruise-projects\/","url_meta":{"origin":1498,"position":0},"title":"Cruise Projects","author":"Sandy","date":"May 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"During the cruise I told you about in my last post, \u00a0I took two classes. 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