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I’ve finally found time to baste my quilt sandwich, so last night I began the quilting by doing the stitching in the ditch to stabilize things. Does anyone really like<\/i> stitching in the ditch? The process, I mean. I like the effect, of course; but I really dislike actually doing<\/i> it — probably because it’s really hard to stay in that ditch. But I finished the little bit of that I needed to do, and today I began the free motion part, which is the part I enjoy. \ud83d\ude42<\/g><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally found time to baste my quilt sandwich, so last night I began the quilting by doing the stitching in the ditch to stabilize things. Does anyone really like stitching in the ditch? The process, I mean. I like the effect, of course; but I really dislike actually doing it — probably because it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"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":[5],"tags":[293,48,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-free-motion","8":"tag-cosmic-happenings","9":"tag-freemotion","10":"tag-quilting","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2653.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-oX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2986,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/26\/ditching-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":1547,"position":0},"title":"Ditching it","author":"Sandy","date":"March 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't get me wrong\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I enjoy the quilting portion of making a quilt. 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