{"id":5544,"date":"2025-01-10T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:29:26","slug":"a-year-long-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/10\/a-year-long-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"A year-long plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been very productive lately; I was busy getting ready for the holidays, and I’ve had trouble deciding what my next project would be. However, last fall my local quilt group decided to do a BOM, and we all downloaded the directions from A Quilting Life<\/a> for their 2024 BOM. We’ll be doing it this year, though. We had show and tell of all of the January blocks at our meeting the other day, and that was really fun.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/a>I’ve now finished my February block, too, so that it will be ready for the meeting next month. Here’s a photo of the two of them together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been very productive lately; I was busy getting ready for the holidays, and I’ve had trouble deciding what my next project would be. However, last fall my local quilt group decided to do a BOM, and we all downloaded the directions from A Quilting Life for their 2024 BOM. We’ll be doing it […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[252,335,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-5544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-basket-blocks","8":"tag-block-of-the-month","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1rq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5798,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/11\/06\/block-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":5544,"position":0},"title":"Block #10!","author":"Sandy","date":"November 6, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm still working on the BOM from Wonderfil, and the most recent block was released at the beginning of this month. 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