{"id":1552,"date":"2010-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/twiddling-and-tweaking\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:53:53","slug":"twiddling-and-tweaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/28\/twiddling-and-tweaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Twiddling and tweaking"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A couple of days ago, our guild sponsored a visit and lecture from the delightfully funny and knowledgeable Jennie Rayment<\/a>. If you’ve never had a chance to hear her speak or take a class from her, you can consider yourself deprived. \ud83d\ude09 I was lucky enough to be able to take three classes from Jennie in the summer of 2007 (photos posted of the resulting projects here<\/a>), and when I found out that she was coming to town, I immediately signed up to take one of the classes she’d be teaching here: Cosmic Happenings. This one involves inserting bits of one circle into another circle to get a wonderful effect. I’ve finished two blocks and am trying to decide what to do about making more, since I have no more of the deep purple background batik I began with. Drat! But here are photos of my two blocks, both done in batiks. The first has “rays” of varying sizes in a fabric ranging from orange through melon to yellow; I added a gold center. The rays of the second block are lavender, with a purplish-aqua center; the rays on this one are uniform in length.<\/div>\n
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A couple of days ago, our guild sponsored a visit and lecture from the delightfully funny and knowledgeable Jennie Rayment. If you’ve never had a chance to hear her speak or take a class from her, you can consider yourself deprived. \ud83d\ude09 I was lucky enough to be able to take three classes from Jennie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"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":[200,293,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-classes","9":"tag-cosmic-happenings","10":"tag-piecing-2","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2629.jpg?fit=640%2C627&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-p2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1543,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/27\/cosmic-happenings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1552,"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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