{"id":2835,"date":"2016-10-13T07:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2016-10-13T07:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:29:08","slug":"fat-quarter-pop-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/fat-quarter-pop-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Quarter Pop-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I attended a lecture at my local Bernina dealer, this one dealing with making and\u00a0\u00a0personalizing\u00a0the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatquartergypsy.com\/FQ-Pop-Up.html\" target=\"_blank\">pop-up canisters<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t stay to actually make one, but on Sunday I did make one. The presentation on Friday gave each attendee a free motif to use on one of these pop-ups, but I decided to add a second motif in order to make it very personal. This pop-up is a gift for my granddaughter to use for her sewing\/quilting tools, so I added her initial and made it in colors to coordinate with her bedroom.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2837\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861-232x300.jpg?resize=232%2C300\" alt=\"img_1861\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg?resize=768%2C993&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg?resize=792%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 792w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg?w=990&amp;ssl=1 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To the left\u00a0is one side with the free motif we were given.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2839\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864-234x300.jpg?resize=234%2C300\" alt=\"img_1864\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864.jpg?resize=234%2C300&amp;ssl=1 234w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864.jpg?resize=768%2C986&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864.jpg?resize=798%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 798w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1864.jpg?w=997&amp;ssl=1 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>And on the right\u00a0is the reverse with my granddaughter&#8217;s initial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2838\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863-300x252.jpg?resize=300%2C252\" alt=\"img_1863\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863.jpg?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863.jpg?resize=768%2C646&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863.jpg?resize=1024%2C861&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1863.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One very cute aspect of the pop-ups is their portability since they collapse, much like those window shades many of us use in our cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday I attended a lecture at my local Bernina dealer, this one dealing with making and\u00a0\u00a0personalizing\u00a0the popular pop-up canisters. I couldn&#8217;t stay to actually make one, but on Sunday I did make one. The presentation on Friday gave each attendee a free motif to use on one of these pop-ups, but I decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[303,299],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-family","8":"category-quilting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_1861.jpg?fit=990%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-JJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1304,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/19\/great-class\/","url_meta":{"origin":2835,"position":0},"title":"Great class!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday I was lucky enough to have been able to take a free-motion quilting class from Cindy Needham. 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