{"id":4559,"date":"2021-08-19T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2021-08-19T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:54:46","slug":"dragonfly-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/19\/dragonfly-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"picture<\/a>The latest quilt is now finished<\/strong>! I had such a good time quilting this one, especially since I wasn’t constantly fighting the weight as I moved it around under my Bernina, thanks to my new suspension system. The background fabric is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is where I got the name for the quilt. I thought the colorful blocks gave the dragonflies a sort of garden to play in. See the fingers and toes of my “quilt rack” here? \ud83d\ude09 Just click on the photos to enlarge them.<\/p>\n

The quilt is made of curvy snail’s trail blocks with sashing and inner borders of diamonds in rectangles and square-in-a-square blocks. The outer border is more of the dragonfly fabric, followed by multicolored corded piping and the white binding.<\/p>\n

\"close-up<\/a>I quilted free-motion swirly motifs and feathers (just because I love feathers <g>) to mimic the dragonflies playing, and I used free-motion ruler work in the outer border to give the “garden” a fence. Can you see how the sashing creates a star where it comes together? Look just left of lower center.<\/p>\n

\"label<\/a>The backing fabric is mainly white, but it’s covered in tiny speckles of all of the colors used in the quilt — a lucky find! And you can see that I continued the multicolored “theme” in the embroidered label.<\/p>\n

The quilt measures approximately 60″ x 60″.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest quilt is now finished! I had such a good time quilting this one, especially since I wasn’t constantly fighting the weight as I moved it around under my Bernina, thanks to my new suspension system. The background fabric is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is where I got the name […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4562,"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":[301,5,3,299],"tags":[202,193,226,48,217,73,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-4559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"category-free-motion","9":"category-piecing","10":"category-quilting","11":"tag-bernina","12":"tag-embroidery","13":"tag-feathers","14":"tag-freemotion","15":"tag-piecing-2","16":"tag-piping","17":"tag-quilting","18":"tag-ruler-work","19":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_0020.jpeg?fit=640%2C453&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1bx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5236,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/the-curves-are-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":4559,"position":0},"title":"The curves are done!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I put the finishing touches on a quilt I'd been working on -- or on and off! -- for a couple of months. 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