{"id":1800,"date":"2013-09-16T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T05:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2013-09-16T22:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T06:21:42","slug":"finally-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Finally Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-wpid-DSC00878-2011-05-27-09-04-2013-09-16-21-532.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-wpid-DSC00878-2011-05-27-09-04-2013-09-16-21-532.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"372\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-wpid-DSC00866-2011-05-27-09-04-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-wpid-DSC00866-2011-05-27-09-04-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"373\"\/><br \/>\nRemember these quilts &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=173\">Girl in Yellow and Girl in Green<\/a>?  I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decide if they were finished.  Two years later, they are finally finished. <\/p>\n<p>I gave myself a deadline and entered them into the annual quilt show my guild has.  The quilts had to be finished by September 13th.   I completed them a few days before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_2488-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2488-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"424\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_2500-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2500-2013-09-16-21-531.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"425\"\/><br \/>\nMeet Happy Girl 1 and Happy Girl 2!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_2491-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2491-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"446\"\/><br \/>\nI noticed a few things as I finished the quilts and wrote this blog post.<br \/>\n1.  My photography skills have improved in the last few years!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_2510-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2510-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\"\/><br \/>\n2.  My quilting skills have improved in the last few years &#8211; the initial quilting wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bad on these, I just do better now.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_2508-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2508-2013-09-16-21-53.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"\/><br \/>\n3.  If I had the fabric, unassembled (not stitched together and quilted) I know what I would do differently to make these even better.  Hindsight!<\/p>\n<p>Now to find them a new home &#8211; over 3 years in my studio is too long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember these quilts &#8211; Girl in Yellow and Girl in Green? I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t decide if they were finished. Two years later, they are finally finished. I gave myself a deadline and entered them into the annual quilt show my guild has. The quilts had to be finished by September 13th. I completed them a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"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=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}