{"id":5271,"date":"2016-02-23T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:55:45","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:55:45","slug":"dream-big-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=5271","title":{"rendered":"Dream BIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/wpid-IMG_0956-2016-02-23-20-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_0956-2016-02-23-20-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nDreaming big and coming up with ideas is part of the fun of being creative especially as I see new fabrics, no patterns and learn new technique. I struggle to balance heading after the shiny new idea and finishing the projects in front of me.  I like to give myself 1\/2 a day or a full day each week to work on something fun &#8211; not a commission quilt, not a pattern I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m designing, not a writing project.  Something that lets me experiment with colors, techniques or fabrics.  That fun project often turns into throw size quilts, I gift to friend and family, but sometimes it leads me to new art quilts.  These portrait dress quilts are an example. I created them with wood, canvas, paper and stitching for a writing project, but I kept wondering what if I did them all in fabric.  It was such fun making the first ones that I keep making them.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/wpid-IMG_0952-2016-02-23-20-40.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-IMG_0952-2016-02-23-20-40.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nDream BIG (9\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 12\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dreaming big and coming up with ideas is part of the fun of being creative especially as I see new fabrics, no patterns and learn new technique. I struggle to balance heading after the shiny new idea and finishing the projects in front of me. I like to give myself 1\/2 a day or a [&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\/5271"}],"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=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}