{"id":3264,"date":"2014-10-15T19:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2014-10-12T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T04:39:33","slug":"no-place-like-home-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"No Place Like Home Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-IMG_7089-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7089-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nIn March while visiting the Ohio Valley Quilters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild in Cincinnati, I was given a challenge.  Create a quilted item using a bit of each fabric and at least one embellishment included in the challenge packet.  After too many months, I finally knew what I wanted to create &#8211; tiny quilts to decorate a home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-IMG_7105-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7105-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI cut squares of the text print and brown fabric along with some batting to create the base for a pillowcase style bound quilt with loops of ribbon included.  Once all the quilts were turned right side out and stitched closed on the edges, I cut tiny squares of the other two fabrics and a larger bit of muslin that were stitched to the top.  I then used blue thread to add a word or two each little quilt.  I hand stitched an embellishment to the quilt and threaded a skewer through the ribbon loops and added a bit of check ribbon.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/wpid-IMG_7094-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7094-2014-10-15-19-57.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n16 tiny quilts were created &#8211; each one meeting the challenge requirements.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be sending these to Cincinnati so that the Ohio Valley Quilters can enjoy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March while visiting the Ohio Valley Quilters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild in Cincinnati, I was given a challenge. Create a quilted item using a bit of each fabric and at least one embellishment included in the challenge packet. After too many months, I finally knew what I wanted to create &#8211; tiny quilts to decorate a home. [&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\/3264"}],"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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}