{"id":228,"date":"2011-06-07T20:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T04:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=228"},"modified":"2011-06-07T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T05:17:23","slug":"sharing-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-CreativeBlock01-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-CreativeBlock01-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before moving to Alaska, I was involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ovqg.com\/\">Ohio Valley Quilters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild<\/a> in Cincinnati where I met some amazingly talented women.  I loved being involved so I edited the newsletter, helped with the website, coordinated the creation of community quilt (made with scraps donated by 72 different people in the city), served as vice president for 2 years and president for a year.  <\/p>\n<p>Typically when the president steps aside, the members make a block to show their appreciation. Since I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t often do big quilts, I opted to have them members show me their creativity.  I gave them a pattern for a dress and printed faces.  These are a few of the blocks I received.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-CreativeBlock36-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-CreativeBlock36-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"333\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-CreativeBlock37-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-CreativeBlock37-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It took me a bit but I finally bound them into a fabric book. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the largest fabric book I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made with 36 pages (each page 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  The book is a treasure, reminding me of the wonderful ladies in Cincinnati and their caring, creative spirit.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-CreativeBlock11-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-CreativeBlock11-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"318\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/wpid-CreativeBlock17-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-CreativeBlock17-2011-06-7-20-31.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To see all the pages click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/64044938@N00\/sets\/72157626787689971\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before moving to Alaska, I was involved with the Ohio Valley Quilters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild in Cincinnati where I met some amazingly talented women. I loved being involved so I edited the newsletter, helped with the website, coordinated the creation of community quilt (made with scraps donated by 72 different people in the city), served as vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228"}],"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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}