{"id":4525,"date":"2021-06-30T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4525"},"modified":"2021-06-29T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T00:57:08","slug":"snails-trail-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/30\/snails-trail-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Snail’s Trail blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snail's<\/a>The quilt I’m working on needs sixteen Snail’s Trail blocks, and my Bernina and I finished making those today — yay! I still need to make 25 pieced cornerstone blocks and 20 diamond sashing blocks, but these Snail’s Trail blocks have more pieces in them than the others. Hmmm … I see that I managed to get one of the blocks turned in a different direction than the others, but that’s okay; this is not the final layout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The quilt I’m working on needs sixteen Snail’s Trail blocks, and my Bernina and I finished making those today — yay! I still need to make 25 pieced cornerstone blocks and 20 diamond sashing blocks, but these Snail’s Trail blocks have more pieces in them than the others. Hmmm … I see that I managed […]<\/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":[3,299],"tags":[202,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-4525","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-1aZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4559,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/dragonfly-playground\/","url_meta":{"origin":4525,"position":0},"title":"Dragonfly Playground","author":"Sandy","date":"August 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest quilt is now finished! 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