{"id":1555,"date":"2010-02-17T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/its-coming-along\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:52:26","slug":"its-coming-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/17\/its-coming-along\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s coming along …"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>About a week ago<\/a>, I posted that I had begun the quilting on a nap quilt for our youngest grandchild, as she will be going to preschool in the fall. Today I finished the quilting and will now be able to bind the quilt, ready for our granddaughter’s birthday. \ud83d\ude42 Here are a couple of pictures of the back of the quilt, where it is easier to see the quilting than on the front. I outlined the motifs in the fairy panel that forms the major portion of the quilt; here you can see some of the stems and leaves of the artichoke plants that surround the fairy.<\/div>\n
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<\/a>And here is part of the border, which is full of feathers undulating their way around the perimeter of the quilt.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a week ago, I posted that I had begun the quilting on a nap quilt for our youngest grandchild, as she will be going to preschool in the fall. Today I finished the quilting and will now be able to bind the quilt, ready for our granddaughter’s birthday. \ud83d\ude42 Here are a couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":908,"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":[226,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-1555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-free-motion","8":"tag-feathers","9":"tag-quilting","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2610.jpg?fit=480%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-p5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4844,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/saguaro-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1555,"position":0},"title":"Saguaro quilt","author":"Sandy","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's finished! 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