{"id":3850,"date":"2015-03-03T07:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2015-03-03T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:10:07","slug":"around-here-lately-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=3850","title":{"rendered":"Around Here Lately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-IMG_8853-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8853-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?cl=161340&#038;c=ib&#038;aff=290057 target=\"ejejcsingle\"\">STITCHED 2015<\/a> started!  It is so fun to see all the classes and decide which videos to watch first.  As I watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-junkie.com\/ecom\/gb.php?cl=161340&#038;c=ib&#038;aff=290057 target=\"ejejcsingle\"\">STITCHED 2015<\/a> videos, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been applying fusible webbing to cotton batting, cutting batik fabrics for mini art quilts and I started quilting some of the mini backgrounds (yes, I watch videos, tv and movies while quilting &#8211; they make great background noise when music doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel right).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-IMG_8854-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8854-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nAfter fusing the front fabric to the batting, I bound these mini quilts pillow case style before I started the quilting.  It results in less puckering gives me such  smooth surface for quilting.  I used this on the mini one word art quilts I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been sharing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-IMG_8848-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_8848-2015-03-3-07-50.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nLast week I began piecing together a quilt top.  I had a few extra blocks left over, so I created a pillow cover.  With lots of straight line quilting.  I need to get a 14\u00e2\u20ac\u009d pillow form insert and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be all done.  I attempted to add piping with french seams, but, it didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look right.  So I scrapped the piping, but I did successfully do french seams!  Gotta celebrate the little wins!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you all for the magpie girl sentiment suggestions.  i\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still debating which one to use &#8211; dancing was super popular.  Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowilikethat.com\">Debbie<\/a> who will receive several patterns and other fun goodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STITCHED 2015 started! It is so fun to see all the classes and decide which videos to watch first. As I watch the STITCHED 2015 videos, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been applying fusible webbing to cotton batting, cutting batik fabrics for mini art quilts and I started quilting some of the mini backgrounds (yes, I watch videos, tv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850"}],"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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}