{"id":4304,"date":"2020-10-04T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2020-10-04T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T22:43:13","slug":"glamorous-clams-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/04\/glamorous-clams-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorous Clams, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clamshells<\/a>I’ve been working pretty hard on the online classes I’ve mentioned before, but I did finally get all of my clamshells stitched to the background, using a variety of decorative stitches and thread colors. The next step will be to quilt this piece and the backing before putting them together. That may need to wait a little while, though, while I finish up a few other non-quilting projects, but that’s not a problem. \ud83d\ude42 I will eventually trim away all of the white backing from the panel, which will make it a slightly smaller rectangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working pretty hard on the online classes I’ve mentioned before, but I did finally get all of my clamshells stitched to the background, using a variety of decorative stitches and thread colors. The next step will be to quilt this piece and the backing before putting them together. That may need to wait […]<\/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":[4],"tags":[202,326,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-4304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-applique","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-clamshells","9":"tag-embellishing","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-17q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4276,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/29\/more-class-samples\/","url_meta":{"origin":4304,"position":0},"title":"More class samples","author":"Sandy","date":"August 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As I've explained before, I'm taking an online series of classes -- fantastically wonderful classes -- that are issued monthly. 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