{"id":1550,"date":"2010-03-04T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/cosmic-happenings-top\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:54:53","slug":"cosmic-happenings-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/04\/cosmic-happenings-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Happenings top"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>The top is finished! \ud83d\ude42 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. I’m going to look for a backing soon and then tackle the machine quilting, though I don’t think the quilting will be as intricate as some of my other pieces; the stars need to be the main focus in this one. <\/div>\n

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So far, every step of this top has been done by machine, though the “twiddling” could have been done by hand if I’d chosen to do it that way. The quilt may very well end up as a gift, so I’m also considering trying my hand at a miniature variation, since it’s such fun to make these blocks. We’ll see. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The top is finished! \ud83d\ude42 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. I’m going to look for a backing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":901,"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":[3],"tags":[293,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-cosmic-happenings","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2633.jpg?fit=998%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-p0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1543,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/27\/cosmic-happenings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1550,"position":0},"title":"Cosmic Happenings","author":"Sandy","date":"March 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"With various things happening around here, I almost forgot to post the photos of a finished quilt! 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