{"id":3615,"date":"2018-10-27T13:12:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2018-10-27T13:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T20:12:21","slug":"biscornu-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/biscornu-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Biscornu cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Several years ago I made a pin cushion that is a biscornu — that is, it’s a way of putting together two squares so that you end up with eight sides. Sounds crazy, right? But it’s pretty cool, and I’d always intended to make more. However, a couple of weeks ago I saw photos of a throw cushion<\/a> in that same shape — and it had gorgeous embroidery on it, too. I just couldn’t resist, so here is my version.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This one is made of eight embroidered blocks; you can see parts of four of them above. The eight blocks are stitched together in four-patches, and then those are put together just as I’d put together my earlier pin cushion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several years ago I made a pin cushion that is a biscornu — that is, it’s a way of putting together two squares so that you end up with eight sides. Sounds crazy, right? But it’s pretty cool, and I’d always intended to make more. However, a couple of weeks ago I saw photos of […]<\/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],"tags":[193],"class_list":{"0":"post-3615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-embroidery","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Wj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3722,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/a-biscornu-pin-cushion\/","url_meta":{"origin":3615,"position":0},"title":"A biscornu pin cushion","author":"Sandy","date":"January 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know why I'm so intrigued by the biscornu construction, and I also don't know why I like pin cushions so much. 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It starts out as two squares of fabric, but it ends up having eight sides! The more traditional ones have counted cross stitch as the squares, but they can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Quilting"","block_context":{"text":"Quilting","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/IMG_2657-300x253.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3785,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/multiplying-like-rabbits\/","url_meta":{"origin":3615,"position":2},"title":"Multiplying Like Rabbits","author":"Sandy","date":"March 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The ladies at my local quilt group really liked the\u00a0biscornu cushion that I made some time back, so they asked me to teach them the biscornu technique. 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