{"id":5641,"date":"2025-05-24T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T23:33:18","slug":"the-whole-flock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/05\/24\/the-whole-flock\/","title":{"rendered":"The whole flock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I had intended to make a single block of this design each month as a take-along project for sewing days sponsored by our local guild. However, once I had all of the blocks done — many of them done at home when I simply couldn’t resist working on. them — I just had<\/em> to see what they were going to look like as a quilt top. Have I mentioned that my preferred method of working on projects is to do one from beginning to end before starting another? Oh well. Here is the central portion of the quilt, all put together, though I still need to add the border. I think the birds are just adorable! The designs are from Wonderfil and were a block-of-the-month in 2024; there is a new BOM this year, featuring coffee and tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had intended to make a single block of this design each month as a take-along project for sewing days sponsored by our local guild. However, once I had all of the blocks done — many of them done at home when I simply couldn’t resist working on. them — I just had to see […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[228],"class_list":{"0":"post-5641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"tag-paper-piecing","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1sZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4022,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/the-next-step\/","url_meta":{"origin":5641,"position":0},"title":"The next step","author":"Sandy","date":"November 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I finished all of the blocks for the little quilt I'm working on. 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