{"id":3621,"date":"2018-10-29T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3621"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T21:36:00","slug":"borders-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/29\/borders-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Borders added"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve shown you the four adorable little blocks designed by the San Francisco Stitch Company<\/a>, and they also offered designs for the borders and corners to finish up the project. I’ve just completed the stitching on those, and my Bernina 790+ did a wonderful job with all of it. \ud83d\ude42 The original suggestion was for shades of brown as the sashing and corners, but I’m just not into browns very much, so I substituted purple. After all, there are touches of purple in each block, and I do love purple!<\/p>\n

The blocks were 6″ before adding sashing and borders, and the little quilt top is now about 18″ square. I “just” need to decide how I want to quilt it! Any ideas? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve shown you the four adorable little blocks designed by the San Francisco Stitch Company, and they also offered designs for the borders and corners to finish up the project. I’ve just completed the stitching on those, and my Bernina 790+ did a wonderful job with all of it. \ud83d\ude42 The original suggestion was for […]<\/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":[202,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-3621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Wp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4559,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/dragonfly-playground\/","url_meta":{"origin":3621,"position":0},"title":"Dragonfly Playground","author":"Sandy","date":"August 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest quilt is now finished! 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The background fabric is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Embroidery"","block_context":{"text":"Embroidery","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/embroidery\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"picture of colorful quilt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0020.jpeg?fit=640%2C453&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0020.jpeg?fit=640%2C453&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0020.jpeg?fit=640%2C453&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4952,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/04\/borders\/","url_meta":{"origin":3621,"position":1},"title":"Borders","author":"Sandy","date":"February 4, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The borders and corner sections for the embroidered project I've been working on were released! This is the Winter Twist sew-along from San Francisco Stitch Co.\u00a0The blocks and finishing pieces have been free for a while, but that will stop in a very short time. There are, of course, four\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Embroidery"","block_context":{"text":"Embroidery","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/embroidery\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bernina 790+ embroidering purple border fabric.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0021-300x225.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4956,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/05\/quilt-top-finished\/","url_meta":{"origin":3621,"position":2},"title":"Quilt top finished!","author":"Sandy","date":"February 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I posted that I was working on embroidering the borders of the Winter Twist project from San Francisco Stitch Co. 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