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\"\"<\/a>Oh my! I can hardly believe it’s been so long since my last post! I have all sorts of excuses, ranging from being under the weather to holiday prep and family doings, but of course we all have those. LOL! A few weeks ago, I began working on La Vie Est Belle, the beautiful New York Beauty variation by Jacqueline de Jonge that I purchased in Houston. I actually made a few of the arcs (there are 20 in all), though I haven’t added the wedges that “finish” them. However, what you see in this photo is exactly what I’ve been seeing since just before Thanksgiving! At least everything is all organized and ready for when I get back to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh my! I can hardly believe it’s been so long since my last post! I have all sorts of excuses, ranging from being under the weather to holiday prep and family doings, but of course we all have those. LOL! A few weeks ago, I began working on La Vie Est Belle, the beautiful New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[3,299],"tags":[202,217,2],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-piecing","category-quilting","tag-bernina","tag-piecing-2","tag-quilting","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Re","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3364,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/03\/heading-for-the-borders\/","url_meta":{"origin":3300,"position":0},"title":"Heading for the border(s)","author":"Sandy","date":"March 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Whew! 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It sort of went onto the back burner for a while when I needed to rework my main website, but it's finally finished and will be gifted to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Free motion quilting"","block_context":{"text":"Free motion quilting","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/free-motion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Echoes quilt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_0934-2-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3373,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/09\/pausing-at-the-borders\/","url_meta":{"origin":3300,"position":4},"title":"Pausing at the borders","author":"Sandy","date":"March 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"As planned, I've finished adding the borders to La Vie Est Belle, and I'm taking a bit of a break to get some other things accomplished before beginning the quilting. 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