{"id":2778,"date":"2014-08-11T19:15:23","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T03:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-08-11T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T05:05:00","slug":"scrap-quilt-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=2778","title":{"rendered":"Scrap Quilt &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-IMG_6184-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_6184-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nOver a year ago, I started a scrap quilt.  I planned to post more progress photos, but there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any progress until last week.  The basket that housed the started scrap quilt was overflowing with even more scraps.  I dumped it and got to work randomly piecing fabrics together to make 13\u00e2\u20ac\u009d squares that I trimmed down to be 12\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blocks (12.5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d unfinished).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-IMG_6172-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_6172-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI kept piecing, sewing and sorting fabrics until the basket was empty.   After 2 days, I have:<br \/>\n&#8211; 36 happy scrappy blocks<br \/>\n&#8211; a pile of larger scraps that will likely be pieced into a scrappy backing for this scrap quilt<br \/>\n&#8211; a pile of gray fabrics for what I hope will be fun modern quilt someday<br \/>\n&#8211; 12 scrappy blocks of cream, green, red and brown fabrics for a charity quilt<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-Blocks-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-Blocks-2014-08-11-19-15.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThere was little thought in putting these together.  It was all about finding like sized pieces to stitch together to form a block.  I love the randomness and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m planning to embrace that as I piece the blocks together in rows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a year ago, I started a scrap quilt. I planned to post more progress photos, but there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t any progress until last week. The basket that housed the started scrap quilt was overflowing with even more scraps. I dumped it and got to work randomly piecing fabrics together to make 13\u00e2\u20ac\u009d squares that I [&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\/2778"}],"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=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}