{"id":2534,"date":"2016-04-20T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2016-04-20T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:32:29","slug":"at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/20\/at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"At last!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1179\"<\/a>You may not believe it, after all this time, but I’ve finally finished ‘Tis the Season! While I didn’t get it done before last Christmas, it’s ready and waiting for the next one. To\u00a0recap the “story”, I took a class from Claudia Dinnell<\/a>, whose design I’d seen and loved. The pattern is only available at this point via a class, so off I went. That was in August. After two days<\/a> in class, I came home with two blocks completed\u00a0and having made\u00a0my first attempts at multiple hooping for machine embroidery. Over the course of the next few months, I continued making the embroidered blocks on my Bernina, finally putting everything together into a top. The quilting took\u00a0forever<\/em>! Of course, there were interruptions for the Christmas season and other things that had to take temporary precedence, but it’s finally complete. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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\"IMG_1184\"<\/a>\"IMG_1183\"<\/a>I machine quilted a different (or slightly different, at least) motif in each embroidered block, with diagonal\u00a0lines in the text blocks. Here you can see parts of some\u00a0of those motifs and some of the straight lines around the text.<\/p>\n

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At first I was puzzled about what to do in the embroidered border, but then I decided simply to repeat the previously-used motifs randomly\u00a0all the way around the quilt. As a sort of counterpoint to the quilting in the embroidered areas, I quilted straight lines with a zigzag between them in the red borders.<\/p>\n

All in all, I’m very happy to have finished this, and my family will enjoy it during the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You may not believe it, after all this time, but I’ve finally finished ‘Tis the Season! While I didn’t get it done before last Christmas, it’s ready and waiting for the next one. To\u00a0recap the “story”, I took a class from Claudia Dinnell, whose design I’d seen and loved. 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