{"id":3597,"date":"2014-12-22T19:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2014-12-22T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T05:49:28","slug":"year-of-quilts-finale-and-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3597","title":{"rendered":"Year of Quilts Finale and Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_7871-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7871-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe final quilt in the year of quilts!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_7878-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7878-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nOne side has santa, reindeer and penguins.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_7859-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7859-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe other is more muted with kitties, puppies and plaid.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_7866-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7866-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI quilted it with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmerry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and ornaments.  I did so not stitching the words left to right but rather top to bottom.  Like writing sideways &#8211; I was surprised how easily my brain made the shift.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_7864-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_7864-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The year of quilts has been a fun challenge.  None of the quilts were elaborately pieced, but they were great practice for playing with color and quilting.   Did I mention that most of the fabrics were my husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice? Yep, not all were prints I would have selected, so they pushed me outside my comfort zone.  Occasionally, I reigned in his selections &#8211; he desperately wanted this rooster fabric &#8211; to make the challenge manageable.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/wpid-IMG_3243-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_3243-2014-12-22-19-36.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI would do another year of quilts:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"list-style-type: decimal\">\n<li>Each time I had to peruse my stash for a coordinating fabrics or suitable binding, I discovered new combinations to try in art quilt or other throw\/bed quilts.<\/li>\n<li>I have even more confidence to quilt a larger quilt with free motion stitching &#8211; giant words stitched sideways &#8211; heck yeah!!!<\/li>\n<li>I like giving &#8211; 2014 wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just the year of quilts, it was year of giving quilts.  <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final quilt in the year of quilts! One side has santa, reindeer and penguins. The other is more muted with kitties, puppies and plaid. I quilted it with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcmerry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and ornaments. I did so not stitching the words left to right but rather top to bottom. Like writing sideways &#8211; I was surprised how [&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\/3597"}],"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=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}