{"id":383,"date":"2011-08-03T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-08-03T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T01:35:16","slug":"community-with-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Community with Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wpid-IMG_1973-2011-08-3-17-35.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1973-2011-08-3-17-35.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"524\" \/><br \/>\nCincinnati Community Quilt top<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not feeling well; no new projects today.   Instead how about a project from a few year ago.  <\/p>\n<p>When I moved to Cincinnati in 2005, my friend Denise encouraged me to join the quilt guild there.  I showed up to my first meeting feeling awkward and out of place, but a few months later I jumped in with both feet.  Being involved with the guild helped me feel part of a community.  <\/p>\n<p>This quilt is the epitome of community.  To celebrate the opening a quilt exhibit in 2008, the Cincinnati Art Museum collected fabric from the Cincinnati community.  Over 100 people\/groups donated fabric in a variety of colors and materials.  Then another 75 members from the Ohio Valley Quilters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Guild constructed the quilt.  I had the honor of organizing the quilt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creation.  <\/p>\n<p>Several large boxes overstuffed with fabric were dropped off at my home. With the help of my non-quilting friends, we organized the crazy collection of fabric into color coordinated packs for guild members to begin making blocks.  <\/p>\n<p>The members made 9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d blocks with the fabric from the packs in any pattern they wanted.  A month later the blocks were turned in and a small group gathered to lay out and piece together the completed blocks.  A member donated her time to do the quilting and another did the binding.  It was a project inspired and created by a community.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wpid-IMG_2220-2011-08-3-17-35.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_2220-2011-08-3-17-35.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"604\" \/><br \/>\nCincinnati Community Quilt &#8211; finished<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cincinnati Community Quilt top I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not feeling well; no new projects today. Instead how about a project from a few year ago. When I moved to Cincinnati in 2005, my friend Denise encouraged me to join the quilt guild there. I showed up to my first meeting feeling awkward and out of place, but a [&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\/383"}],"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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}