{"id":1734,"date":"2013-07-27T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T20:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2013-07-27T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T21:13:56","slug":"productive-patchwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Productive Patchwork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/wpid-IMG_2166-2013-07-27-12-59.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2166-2013-07-27-12-59.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"\/><br \/>\nHow do you stay positive and keep your mind off things you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really control when you are worried or anxious?  Straight light stitching, ironing and cutting to create giant patchwork blocks (45\u00e2\u20ac\u009d each) is much more therapeutic than a cookie.  <\/p>\n<p>I finally let myself cut into the many fat quarters I had long ago purchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/annamariahorner.blogspot.com\">Anna Maria Horner<\/a>.  Originally I thought about making a Swoon quilt but I have little patience for meticulous work today.  I paired fat quarters with the scrap bags I recently purchased and set about making the most happy, colorful, no-real-plan patchwork top.  Along the way a plan emerged &#8211; randomly pieced 3\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d strips are forming a log cabin around 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d center squares.  The result is 4 giant blocks and likely a king size quilt.  No clue how to quilt such a large top at home, it might be time to try a quilt-as-you-go technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you stay positive and keep your mind off things you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really control when you are worried or anxious? Straight light stitching, ironing and cutting to create giant patchwork blocks (45\u00e2\u20ac\u009d each) is much more therapeutic than a cookie. I finally let myself cut into the many fat quarters I had long ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}