{"id":4578,"date":"2021-09-09T06:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2021-09-09T06:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:48:50","slug":"a-little-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/09\/a-little-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A little progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LeMoyne<\/a>I think I’ve cut out all of the major pieces for my current project — it took a while, since I had to wait for the black background fabric to arrive. However, I’ve now pieced the central LeMoyne Star and have begun working on the feathered star that surrounds it. Most of what you see here is simply pinned to my design wall, but it’s coming along. \ud83d\ude42 The print fabric for the main part of the feathered star is what prompted my color selections for the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I’ve cut out all of the major pieces for my current project — it took a while, since I had to wait for the black background fabric to arrive. However, I’ve now pieced the central LeMoyne Star and have begun working on the feathered star that surrounds it. Most of what you see […]<\/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],"tags":[217,328],"class_list":{"0":"post-4578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"tag-piecing-2","8":"tag-star","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1bQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4583,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/15\/the-top-is-finished-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4578,"position":0},"title":"The top is finished!","author":"Sandy","date":"September 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Just yesterday, this is what my latest quilt top looked like: As you can probably see, the center square was complete, but I hadn't yet attached the borders. 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The last class in the series is a tutorial on making a feathered star quilt with a LeMoyne Star center. I've always loved both feathered stars and LeMoyne Stars, so this was a no-brainer\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Piecing"","block_context":{"text":"Piecing","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/piecing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"fabric selections","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0031.jpeg?fit=640%2C399&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0031.jpeg?fit=640%2C399&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_0031.jpeg?fit=640%2C399&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4603,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/10\/18\/feathered-lemoyne-star\/","url_meta":{"origin":4578,"position":2},"title":"Feathered LeMoyne Star","author":"Sandy","date":"October 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Ta-da! It's done! :) This quilt actually went together rather quickly, from the drafting to the quilting. In fact, deciding on how to quilt it probably took longer than any other part of the process. 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