{"id":2655,"date":"2014-07-07T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2014-07-07T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T05:54:09","slug":"fox-field-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Fox Field Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-IMG_5780-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5780-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nIn March, I saw emails from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\">Craftsy<\/a> about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatquartershop.com\/free-spirit\/fox-field-tula-pink-free-spirit-fabrics\">Tula Pink Fox Field fabric<\/a> mystery quilt.  I order the mystery quilt kit and a few charm packs.  When I the pattern was released in mid April and I saw the diamonds, I was initially paralyzed; my prior piecing attempts with diamond had not gone well.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-IMG_5794-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5794-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\"\/>f<br \/>\nI finally took the leap and piecing it was a learning experience.  There were a few missteps along the way, but I was thrilled to finish the top.   It was almost straight and most of the diamonds had points!  <\/p>\n<p>I used the charm packs along with Kona cotton in Snow to piece the back.   I quilted it with diagonal lines and occasional lines of loops.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-IMG_5807-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_5807-2014-07-7-21-17.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWhen I started to photograph the quilt, I realized one of my souvenirs from Amsterdam was blocking the shot.  I found this set of paper cats in a toy store on the same day we visited the KattenKabinet.  They were too cute to resist.  They took moments to assemble when I got home and thankfully they can tucked up on the light fixture they are hanging from when I need to take photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, I saw emails from Craftsy about a Tula Pink Fox Field fabric mystery quilt. I order the mystery quilt kit and a few charm packs. When I the pattern was released in mid April and I saw the diamonds, I was initially paralyzed; my prior piecing attempts with diamond had not gone well. [&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\/2655"}],"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=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}