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\"\"<\/a>Normally, if I were posting a picture of a quilt label, that would mean I was finished with the quilt. Not this time, though. I’ve finished the piecing, the quilting, the binding, and designing and embroidering the label, so what’s left? This quilt is going to get some bling<\/em>! I bought about a zillion (okay, not quite that many) Swarovski crystals to add to the quilt, and that will be the final step. I’m deciding how I want to arrange them and in which places, so there’s still more to do. Stay tuned! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally, if I were posting a picture of a quilt label, that would mean I was finished with the quilt. Not this time, though. I’ve finished the piecing, the quilting, the binding, and designing and embroidering the label, so what’s left? This quilt is going to get some bling! I bought about a zillion (okay, […]<\/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":[301,299],"tags":[264,217,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-3455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-embellishing","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"tag-quilting","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-almost","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4559,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/dragonfly-playground\/","url_meta":{"origin":3455,"position":0},"title":"Dragonfly Playground","author":"Sandy","date":"August 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest quilt is now finished! 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