{"id":1934,"date":"2015-01-13T13:45:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2015-02-04T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T20:43:52","slug":"the-family-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/13\/the-family-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"The family is growing …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My little quail family, that is! \ud83d\ude42 I showed you the first of the baby chicks in my last post, but progress has been made since then. I’ve temporarily put aside the free-motion quilting I was doing, since I didn’t want to lose the train of thought on this little piece. I’ve had some time in the past couple of days, so I’ve finished all three of the chicks and the papa quail. There’s only the mother to go before the blocks are complete! After that, of course, I’ll have to set them together and decide on borders, but those are things that can be done later, if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My little quail family, that is! \ud83d\ude42 I showed you the first of the baby chicks in my last post, but progress has been made since then. I’ve temporarily put aside the free-motion quilting I was doing, since I didn’t want to lose the train of thought on this little piece. 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