{"id":12,"date":"2004-12-29T03:44:02","date_gmt":"2004-12-29T03:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=12"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"holiday-creations-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Creations 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I decided in November that instead of my usual cookie\/candy baskets I was going to give my quilts as gifts to family and friends.  I dug out my inventory of cuddle quilts and realized that I only needed to make 9 more before Christmas to have the full 20 I needed.  So I was a creating fool from Thanksgiving until Dec 16th.  I didn&#8217;t want to spoil any surprises by posting my creations before all the gift-giving was done.  But now that the holiday hurries have passed and I&#8217;ve had time to recover from our whirlwind trip to TN and GA cut short by the snow storms here in Indiana, I&#8217;m itching to show off some of my work.  Sadly a few creations were wrapped before I remembed that I wanted a picture of them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few cuddle quilts that I snapped as people received them:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/believemagic.com\/wordpress\/wp-images\/quilt1.jpg\" alt=\"Cuddle Quilt\" \/><br \/>Made for Troy&#8217;s grandmother (I incorporated fabric from an old shirt of Troy&#8217;s and an old skirt of mine)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/believemagic.com\/wordpress\/wp-images\/quilt3.jpg\" alt=\"Cuddle Quilt 2\" \/><br \/>Made for Troy&#8217;s mom &#8211; it&#8217;s a watercolor quilt one side is lights fading into mediums and the other is darks fading into mediums.  I used to be a huge queen size quilt but  when my parents divorced the quilt lost it&#8217;s meaning and I had torn it apart &#8211; save for the peiced top and it sat in a box for the last 6 years&#8230;it was time to get some good use out of it<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/believemagic.com\/wordpress\/wp-images\/quilt5.jpg\" alt=\"Cuddle Quilt 3\" \/><br \/>Made for my sister-in-law<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/believemagic.com\/wordpress\/wp-images\/quilt6.jpg\" alt=\"Cuddle Quilt 4\" \/><br \/>This quilt was one of my first crazy quilts and it was wrapped up for a random gift exchange.  <\/p>\n<p>If you want to see some of the other quilts that I gave away, you can click through the <a href=\"http:\/\/believemagic.com\/CuddleQuilts1.htm\"><br \/>\ncuddle quilts<\/a> &#8211; all of those were given as gifts this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided in November that instead of my usual cookie\/candy baskets I was going to give my quilts as gifts to family and friends. I dug out my inventory of cuddle quilts and realized that I only needed to make 9 more before Christmas to have the full 20 I needed. So I was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}