{"id":2085,"date":"2015-05-23T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2085"},"modified":"2015-05-23T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:34:17","slug":"hawaiian-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/23\/hawaiian-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0444\"<\/a>You may\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or may not \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u2014\u00a0remember this post<\/a>. At the time that my quilting buddy, Phyl, bought her kit, I also bought one, and I put it away to work on at some point; the kits were laser cut\u00a0by Stacy Michell<\/a>. That was about three years ago. Time does fly! LOL! Since I’ve been in a mood to get some of my “future projects” finished, I decided to make up the two blocks from the kit I’d purchased. Mine was done in black, and I added a pale aqua batik for contrast. I did a machine blanket stitch after fusing the pieces in place, then did a very small amount of outline quilting before finally making them into cushion covers that will be gifts at Christmas time or earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or may not \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u2014\u00a0remember this post. At the time that my quilting buddy, Phyl, bought her kit, I also bought one, and I put it away to work on at some point; the kits were laser cut\u00a0by Stacy Michell. That was about three years ago. Time does fly! LOL! 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