{"id":4542,"date":"2021-07-22T05:56:03","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T12:56:03","slug":"the-top-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/07\/22\/the-top-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"The top is finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snail's<\/a>I haven’t posted for a while, but I have finally finished the top I’ve been working on<\/a>. This photo shows just the completed top, but yesterday I also pin basted it for quilting. Of course, I haven’t yet decided how I’m going to quilt it, but that will come. In the meantime, here’s the top draped across a sofa, since no one was handy to hold it up. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted for a while, but I have finally finished the top I’ve been working on. This photo shows just the completed top, but yesterday I also pin basted it for quilting. Of course, I haven’t yet decided how I’m going to quilt it, but that will come. In the meantime, here’s the top […]<\/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":[219,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-4542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-eq","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1bg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3974,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/echoes\/","url_meta":{"origin":4542,"position":0},"title":"Echoes","author":"Sandy","date":"October 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I know it's been a long time, but I've finally finished the quilt I've had in the works for some time. 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