{"id":4492,"date":"2015-09-13T18:40:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T02:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2015-09-09T21:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T05:41:39","slug":"commission-wedding-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"Commission &#8211; Wedding Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1296-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1296-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nRemember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4415\">baby quilt commission<\/a>?  I also created a throw size quilt (58\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 70\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) as a wedding gift using more of her grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needlework and bit of my usual art quilting.  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1294-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1294-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI cut apart tablecloths, napkins, pillowcases and placemats, sometimes cutting around holes or stains that I could not repair or clean.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1299-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1299-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nWith the addition of a polka a dot cotton\/linen blend, I created 9 oversized improvisational quilt blocks.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1300-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1300-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe recipient couple likes hiking so I used cotton fabrics to create a small art quilt to add into the throw.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1307-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1307-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nOn the back is an organic cotton print which I also used on the binding.  I quilted it with my usual square spiral using a walking foot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/wpid-IMG_1293-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1293-2015-09-13-18-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI had so much fun making this quilt. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost an adult eye-spy quilt as you look at all the tiny embroidery.  Once washed and dried, it got the crinkly, well-loved quilt look I hope to see.  <\/p>\n<p>My client passed on comments from the recipient who was thrilled with the wedding gift.  So were Ford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents when they received the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4415\">baby quilt<\/a>.  I am so grateful to have the opportunity to bring joy to this family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the baby quilt commission? I also created a throw size quilt (58\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 70\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) as a wedding gift using more of her grandmother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s needlework and bit of my usual art quilting. I cut apart tablecloths, napkins, pillowcases and placemats, sometimes cutting around holes or stains that I could not repair or clean. With the [&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\/4492"}],"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=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}