{"id":3820,"date":"2019-04-14T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2019-04-14T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T21:42:08","slug":"desert-quilters-quilt-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/14\/desert-quilters-quilt-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Quilters Quilt Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Desert Quilters of Nevada has just wrapped up our annual show, where I spent several days either looking or working — \u00a0I was in charge of hanging the smaller quilts and then taking them down again. The show itself was lovely, as usual; there were lots of gorgeous quilts and lots of friendly and helpful vendors. I entered three of my quilts, and I was lucky enough to get two ribbons! My New York Beauty variation, called La Vie Est Belle, wound up with an Honorable Mention with some lovely comments about the quilting.<\/p>\n

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Even better, Autumn Twist was awarded a first-place blue ribbon with equally nice comments about the quilting, as well as about the embroidery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desert Quilters of Nevada has just wrapped up our annual show, where I spent several days either looking or working — \u00a0I was in charge of hanging the smaller quilts and then taking them down again. The show itself was lovely, as usual; there were lots of gorgeous quilts and lots of friendly and helpful […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3821,"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":[193,209,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-3820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"category-free-motion","9":"category-quilting","10":"tag-embroidery","11":"tag-quilt-show","12":"tag-quilting","13":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0108-1.jpg?fit=1073%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ZC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2016,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/international-quilting-weekend-quilt-show\/","url_meta":{"origin":3820,"position":0},"title":"International Quilting Weekend & quilt show","author":"Sandy","date":"March 21, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"What are you doing for this special weekend? 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