{"id":1510,"date":"2010-08-14T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/sidetracked-briefly\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:42:10","slug":"sidetracked-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/sidetracked-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidetracked briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Yes, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be working on my Winding Ways quilt, but things sometimes pop up unexpectedly. \ud83d\ude09 In this case, I happened to see an adorable pattern online yesterday and just couldn&#8217;t resist. You see, my little granddaughter is about to start preschool later this month, and every little girl needs a backpack for her papers, her quilt, and whatever else needs to travel with her to school, doesn&#8217;t she? So when I saw this pattern (Kwiksew #3687), I knew I had to get busy.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/backpack.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"243\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/backpack-300x243.jpg?resize=300%2C243\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">The first challenge was finding the pattern in town, but our local Hancock&#8217;s had it in stock, so off I went to pick it up and find fabrics. Gabriella likes lots of colors, but one of her favorites is pink, so I decided on pink denim (blue denim just seemed <i>so<\/i> blah!) and then found a lining with little mice in tutus! This was good, since Gabriella is taking dance lessons these days. \ud83d\ude42 The lining fabric is shown in front of the backpack in the photo.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Yesterday I washed, dried and pressed the fabrics and then cut out all the pieces. This backpack went together much more quickly than I&#8217;d thought it would; I finished it just before lunchtime today! What do you think? <\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be working on my Winding Ways quilt, but things sometimes pop up unexpectedly. \ud83d\ude09 In this case, I happened to see an adorable pattern online yesterday and just couldn&#8217;t resist. You see, my little granddaughter is about to start preschool later this month, and every little girl needs a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"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":[199],"class_list":{"0":"post-1510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-bag","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/backpack.jpg?fit=640%2C518&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-om","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4638,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/ribbon-weave-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1510,"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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