{"id":3762,"date":"2019-03-06T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T15:38:49","slug":"mama-llama-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/mama-llama-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama Llama Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While in Houston last fall, I ran across this pattern<\/a> and simply couldn’t resist! The expressions on the faces are just delightful, so the pattern came home with me. I pretty much followed the colors as given on the pattern, since I wasn’t really sure what colors llamas really are, but I gave them a blue background. Instead of putting a wide flange between the body of the quilt and the border, I used piped cording, which I repeated next to the binding.<\/p>\n

I had planned to do lots of fun quilting in the background, but the fusible was too stiff to allow that; the background would have shrunk and caused major “ballooning” of the llamas. Yes, I could have quilted the llamas more densely to even things out, but that same fusible was a bear to stitch through; when it wasn’t gumming up my needle and causing the thread to break, it was causing far too many skipped stitches — live and learn. :S In the end, I used ruler work to do simple rows of double lines in the background, going at a rough 60\u00b0 angle. The llamas are just outlined, with a few strategic outlines in the major appliqu\u00e9d sections.<\/p>\n

I still love those sweet faces!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While in Houston last fall, I ran across this pattern and simply couldn’t resist! The expressions on the faces are just delightful, so the pattern came home with me. I pretty much followed the colors as given on the pattern, since I wasn’t really sure what colors llamas really are, but I gave them a […]<\/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":[4,5,299],"tags":[215,202,211,73,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-3762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-applique","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-quilting","9":"tag-applique-2","10":"tag-bernina","11":"tag-houston-show","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-YG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2913,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/16\/somethings-fishy\/","url_meta":{"origin":3762,"position":0},"title":"Something’s fishy …","author":"Sandy","date":"December 16, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"While in Houston last month, I saw an adorable pattern by Appliqu\u00e9 Elementz and couldn't pass it up. 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