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With various things happening around here, I almost forgot to post the photos of a finished quilt! This is Cosmic Happenings, parts of which I posted during the construction. Now it’s finished and all ready to be given to its recipients. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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Each of the four blocks is 14″ square, and the “rays” are dimensional so as to be manipulated according to Jennie Rayment<\/a>‘s instructions.<\/div>\n

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I quilted straight lines between the blocks and around the borders and then did some free motion quilting around the pieced motifs and inner border. I did a simple swirl pattern in the outer border — no complicated quilting this time, as the piecing is the main focus of the piece.<\/div>\n

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With various things happening around here, I almost forgot to post the photos of a finished quilt! This is Cosmic Happenings, parts of which I posted during the construction. Now it’s finished and all ready to be given to its recipients. \ud83d\ude42 Each of the four blocks is 14″ square, and the “rays” are dimensional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":882,"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":[293,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-1543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-cosmic-happenings","9":"tag-freemotion","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2665.jpg?fit=1024%2C981&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1550,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/cosmic-happenings-top\/","url_meta":{"origin":1543,"position":0},"title":"Cosmic Happenings top","author":"Sandy","date":"March 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The top is finished! :) I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, though it's really difficult to tell that I have some metallic fabrics in the center of each \"star\" -- they tend to have glare, even when I don't use a flash to take the photo. 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