{"id":5279,"date":"2024-02-15T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2024-02-15T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T21:50:07","slug":"texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/15\/texture\/","title":{"rendered":"Texture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_0231.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5280\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_0231.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Part of a quilt representing colorful sewing machine needles. Quilting is some ruler work, pebbles, and feathers.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_0231.jpeg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_0231.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_0231.jpeg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been taking a long time to get going on the quilting on my current small quilt. I did actually start, but then I didn&#8217;t like what I&#8217;d done, so I &#8220;unquilted&#8221; it and started over with the &#8220;pondering&#8221; phase. However, I&#8217;m coming down the home stretch now, and I have to say that I&#8217;m really liking the texture that&#8217;s appearing as I go. I&#8217;m doing this on my domestic Bernina 790Pro, which is a truly wonderful machine.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably going to save at least part of the finishing to do at a &#8220;quilt day&#8221; at coming up at the end of the month, but it will get done. It will, that is, if our adorable little dog doesn&#8217;t insist too many times that I stop and pay attention to her. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been taking a long time to get going on the quilting on my current small quilt. I did actually start, but then I didn&#8217;t like what I&#8217;d done, so I &#8220;unquilted&#8221; it and started over with the &#8220;pondering&#8221; phase. However, I&#8217;m coming down the home stretch now, and I have to say that I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[202,226,333,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-5279","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-feathers","9":"tag-pebble-quilting","10":"tag-quilting","11":"tag-ruler-work","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-texture","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4226,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/26\/interwoven-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5279,"position":0},"title":"Interwoven","author":"Sandy","date":"June 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It's done! Oops -- *almost* done; I still need to make and add the label, but the quilting and the binding are finished. :) This was fun to quilt, as I used a different motif in each section. 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