{"id":5493,"date":"2024-10-21T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2024-10-21T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:43:15","slug":"another-quilt-is-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/10\/21\/another-quilt-is-in-the-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Another quilt is in the bag"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Overall<\/a>This quilt, like the previous one, is literally in the bag. I’m storing them both in bags until time to gift them to the intended recipients. This one is from a pattern called Strip to Be Square, by G.E. Designs<\/a>. I know the colors may suggest “baby quilt,” but it’s not; I simply made it in the favorite colors of the people who will receive it. The quilt measures 51″ x 70″, and my husband’s arms don’t quite stretch to that width. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Construction was fairly simple, and I thought it needed something to soften all of those angles, so I quilted lots of feathers into the colored sections and in the meandering borders. Then, as contrast, I did quite a bit of ruler work in the triangles surrounding the colored areas. Click on the photos to enlarge them.<\/p>\n

\"Detail<\/a> \"Detail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This quilt, like the previous one, is literally in the bag. I’m storing them both in bags until time to gift them to the intended recipients. This one is from a pattern called Strip to Be Square, by G.E. Designs. I know the colors may suggest “baby quilt,” but it’s not; I simply made it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5496,"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":[5,3,299],"tags":[202,226,48,217,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-5493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-piecing","9":"category-quilting","10":"tag-bernina","11":"tag-feathers","12":"tag-freemotion","13":"tag-piecing-2","14":"tag-quilting","15":"tag-ruler-work","16":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Wedding-quilt-for-Dominic-Brooke.jpeg?fit=640%2C479&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1qB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5294,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/28\/got-the-point\/","url_meta":{"origin":5493,"position":0},"title":"Got the Point?","author":"Sandy","date":"February 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Got the Point? 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