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\"IMG_0347\"<\/a>I finally finished my quail quilt last night ! I can’t wait to hang it in the spot I’ve decided will be just right for it. While I usually rotate which\u00a0quilts are out\u00a0from one season to the next, I suspect this one will stay put, simply because it’s going quite high on a wall where nothing much larger would fit, anyway, since the quilt measures about 33″ x 12.75″. \ud83d\ude09 I’ve wanted to get this done since I first saw the pattern offered as a class at a January retreat in Lake Havasu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0349\"<\/a>I decided not to bind this quilt, instead opting for a facing turned to the back. The free-motion quilting includes a saguaro cactus behind a couple of the chicks and some “swoopy” curves that I’d hoped would give a sort of windy feeling to the background. You can see photos of some of that and the border quilting in my previous post<\/a>, but here is another bit of the “windy” look.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_0353\"<\/a>I put some pebbles into the area near\u00a0the quails’ feet, and there are lots of straight-ish lines in the part they’re actually standing or walking along. I left most of the body of the quail unquilted so as to let them puff out from the background a bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally finished my quail quilt last night ! I can’t wait to hang it in the spot I’ve decided will be just right for it. While I usually rotate which\u00a0quilts are out\u00a0from one season to the next, I suspect this one will stay put, simply because it’s going quite high on a wall where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[299],"tags":[200,48,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-1999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-quilting","7":"tag-classes","8":"tag-freemotion","9":"tag-paper-piecing","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-wf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4638,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/05\/ribbon-weave-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1999,"position":0},"title":"Ribbon Weave Quilt","author":"Sandy","date":"December 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I started another quilt (of course!), this one called Ribbon Weave, by Basic Grey. 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