{"id":3642,"date":"2018-11-16T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2018-11-16T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T23:40:30","slug":"two-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/two-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Two down!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve just finished my little embroidered quilt, and it’s hanging happily on the wall for the rest of the fall season. It’s only about 18.25″ x 18.25″, so it fits almost anywhere. I’m so glad I decided on purple as the accent fabric; I think it brightens up the overall theme.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The quilting is a combination of free-motion feathers in each block …<\/p>\n

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…\u00a0 and ruler work in the borders. You can see here that I also used purple as corded piping just before the binding.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The second project was a quickie that I did while my machine was set up for embroidery to make the label for the quilt. I did a fast (ten minutes!) monogram on a couple of fingertip towels for the guest bathroom. The one on the left is done in black, and the one on the right is royal blue.<\/p>\n

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I’ve just finished my little embroidered quilt, and it’s hanging happily on the wall for the rest of the fall season. It’s only about 18.25″ x 18.25″, so it fits almost anywhere. I’m so glad I decided on purple as the accent fabric; I think it brightens up the overall theme.         […]<\/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":[301,5,299],"tags":[193,226,48,73,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-3642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-quilting","9":"tag-embroidery","10":"tag-feathers","11":"tag-freemotion","12":"tag-piping","13":"tag-quilting","14":"tag-ruler-work","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-WK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5343,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/ith-quilting-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":3642,"position":0},"title":"ITH Quilting done","author":"Sandy","date":"May 19, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The project I was working on the other day is now at the next stage. 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