{"id":3771,"date":"2019-03-08T16:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2019-03-08T16:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T00:29:50","slug":"fun-with-free-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/fun-with-free-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Free-motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3772 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1-300x199.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1.jpg?resize=768%2C508&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0049-1.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m going to be taking an online class soon, and part of the prep work was to quilt a reasonably large piece of fabric prior to cutting it \u00a0into smaller pieces for the various steps of the class. Rather than doing one type of quilting over the entire surface &#8212; I figured that would be boring &#8212; I decided to do a little of &#8220;this&#8221; and a little of &#8220;that&#8221;. Some of what I did was free-motion feathers and a few fillers, and part was practice with ruler work. Now to cut it up &#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be taking an online class soon, and part of the prep work was to quilt a reasonably large piece of fabric prior to cutting it \u00a0into smaller pieces for the various steps of the class. Rather than doing one type of quilting over the entire surface &#8212; I figured that would be [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,299],"tags":[200,226,48,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-3771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-motion","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-classes","9":"tag-feathers","10":"tag-freemotion","11":"tag-ruler-work","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-YP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5418,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/03\/quilting-finished\/","url_meta":{"origin":3771,"position":0},"title":"Quilting finished!","author":"Sandy","date":"August 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In a huge bit of progress for this particular quilt, I've finished both the free motion and the ruler work quilting! 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The bulk created by all of those tiny seams just meant that my free motion foot kept getting hung up; it's rather difficult to do smooth curves\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Free motion quilting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Free motion quilting","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/free-motion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Swirly Whirly quilt","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0989.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1068&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0989.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1068&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0989.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1068&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0989.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1068&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_0989.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1068&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}