{"id":4972,"date":"2023-02-21T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T00:23:17","slug":"beginning-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/21\/beginning-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginning another one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4973\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"part of the quilting on some black blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_0044.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last summer I pieced a quilt top called Metropolis II by Heidi Pridemore, and that top has been &#8220;marinating&#8221; while I considered how I wanted to quilt it. I&#8217;d finally decided that I wanted to use some of the designs that <a href=\"https:\/\/sueheinz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sue Heinz<\/a> has in her repertoire and which would work very well in this quilt that sort of looks woven. Our guild was lucky enough to sponsor Sue Heinz at a meeting and classes in January, so I put off the quilting even more until after the class I took &#8212; and until my sprained back was feeling better.<\/p>\n<p>But now I&#8217;ve started, and I&#8217;m loving the texture created by the motif I chose to use first! I can only work on it a little at a time so as not to strain my back more, but it will progress. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I pieced a quilt top called Metropolis II by Heidi Pridemore, and that top has been &#8220;marinating&#8221; while I considered how I wanted to quilt it. I&#8217;d finally decided that I wanted to use some of the designs that Sue Heinz has in her repertoire and which would work very well in this [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,299],"tags":[202,200,48,2],"class_list":{"0":"post-4972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-motion","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-classes","10":"tag-freemotion","11":"tag-quilting","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1ic","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4992,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/31\/view-from-above\/","url_meta":{"origin":4972,"position":0},"title":"View from Above","author":"Sandy","date":"March 31, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"And it's finished! This quilt will go to the youngest of our grandsons when he begins his pilot training. The design was originally called Metropolis II (by Heidi Pridemore), but I've renamed it to reflect our grandson's interest. I quilted it in a design by Sue Heinz, called Road Trip,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Free motion quilting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Free motion quilting","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/free-motion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Black, blue and grey quilt, all done in squares and rectangles.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_0064-1-292x300.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3997,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/07\/a-tip\/","url_meta":{"origin":4972,"position":1},"title":"A tip","author":"Sandy","date":"November 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know about you, but sometimes I absolutely agonize over which quilting designs I'm going to use on a quilt. In the past, I've begun a motif, only to decide that it simply doesn't work on that particular area, and then I've had to pick it all out. Ugh.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Embroidery&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Embroidery","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/embroidery\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"auditioning motifs","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0970.jpg?fit=1200%2C853&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0970.jpg?fit=1200%2C853&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0970.jpg?fit=1200%2C853&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0970.jpg?fit=1200%2C853&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_0970.jpg?fit=1200%2C853&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4890,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/20\/win-a-few-lose-a-few\/","url_meta":{"origin":4972,"position":2},"title":"Win a few, lose a few &#8230;","author":"Sandy","date":"November 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Time has slipped past me while playing with our new dog and having a fun trip to the Houston show, but I have two new quilts to post here, neither of which is my usual \"stuff\". 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