{"id":3643,"date":"2015-01-08T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3643"},"modified":"2015-01-04T22:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T07:15:30","slug":"happiness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3643","title":{"rendered":"Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wpid-IMG_8186-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8186-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nIn late 2014, I was asked to create several art quilts for a local residential treatment facility.  The work they do is familiar, similar to my first job out of college at a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home for abused and\/or delinquent kids.  Color on the walls is wonderful for both the kids there and the adults working with them.  <\/p>\n<p>While visiting local shops for inspiration, I found this poppy fabric and thought the happy red-orange would be great for a quote on happiness.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wpid-IMG_8176-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8176-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI layered white fabric on the batting and then applied fusible webbing to poppy fabric.  I cut away some of the pattern at the top to make room for the quote.  I quilted vertical lines with gray thread and quilted around each flower and down each stem.  I then stitched the words.  I had written them on paper to know the layout, but put my needle in place and went for it on the quilt.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/wpid-IMG_8173-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8173-2015-01-8-14-33.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nhappiness is found when the heart and mind begin to believe in the soul\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dreams (16\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 23\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2014, I was asked to create several art quilts for a local residential treatment facility. The work they do is familiar, similar to my first job out of college at a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home for abused and\/or delinquent kids. Color on the walls is wonderful for both the kids there and the adults working [&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\/3643"}],"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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}