{"id":4122,"date":"2020-03-05T17:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:10:06","slug":"blocks-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/blocks-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Blocks done …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Interwoven<\/a>A couple of weeks ago I showed you the beginnings of a new quilt,<\/a>\u00a0called Interwoven, that I’m making. I’m very relieved to have finished making all of my strip sets (should I admit how tired I am of making strip sets?) and also all of the blocks necessary for the quilt top. Yay!<\/p>\n

There are four different kinds of blocks, for a \u00a0total \u00a0of 50 blocks. Now I “just” need to put them together into the right order — which probably means a certain amount of unsewing as I get careless, but I’m hoping for patience and accuracy to minimize that. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I showed you the beginnings of a new quilt,\u00a0called Interwoven, that I’m making. I’m very relieved to have finished making all of my strip sets (should I admit how tired I am of making strip sets?) and also all of the blocks necessary for the quilt top. Yay! There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,299],"tags":[202,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-4122","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-14u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4022,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/the-next-step\/","url_meta":{"origin":4122,"position":0},"title":"The next step","author":"Sandy","date":"November 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I finished all of the blocks for the little quilt I'm working on. 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