{"id":4675,"date":"2015-10-17T06:27:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2015-10-17T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T14:46:17","slug":"plus-sign-quilt-and-group-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=4675","title":{"rendered":"Plus Sign Quilt and Group Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-IMG_1887-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1887-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nPlus sign quilts are great for large prints you want to show off and they are easy to cut and assemble.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-IMG_1883-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1883-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThis one is a kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quilt measuring 45\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 50\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-IMG_1893-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1893-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nI backed it with some sale fabric that happened to match the stripes in the elephants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 legs perfectly.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-IMG_1898-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1898-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nFor some added color today &#8211; this is a group quilt that my modern quilting group created.  Each quarter we do a challenge to create a quilt for donation to the Red Cross.  We all made blocks inspired by the QuiltCon 2014 charity quilt colors.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/wpid-IMG_1912-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_1912-2015-10-17-06-27.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nTo account for the different size blocks and also to make the quilt bigger (54\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 70\u00e2\u20ac\u009d), we added strips of neutrals (white prints, gray print, and the purple solid) around groups of the blocks. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so fun to see all the different blocks come together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus sign quilts are great for large prints you want to show off and they are easy to cut and assemble. This one is a kid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quilt measuring 45\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 50\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. I backed it with some sale fabric that happened to match the stripes in the elephants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 legs perfectly. For some added color today &#8211; [&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\/4675"}],"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=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}