{"id":811,"date":"2012-02-24T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=811"},"modified":"2012-02-24T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T01:51:17","slug":"scraps-sketch-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Scraps + Sketch = Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03452-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03452-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\"\/><\/p>\n<p>My friend Donna visited this week to drop off a few blocks for an upcoming guild meeting. She also brought along scraps she had just picked up from a local seamstress.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03460-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03460-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"403\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I left the bits of pink satin and tulle, the swirled black fabric and suiting fabric piled on my desk.  Later that night I sketched out an idea.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03461-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03461-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With bits of left over text fabric I created the girl.  I ruffled strips of the pink satin, singing the edge to prevent fraying.  I gathered the tulle and created a layered skirt.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03456-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03456-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"672\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I stitched stings near the top of the quilt and glued gems on them to look like twinkle lights.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wpid-DSC03438-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC03438-2012-02-24-16-31.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"842\"\/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcA ball gown, twinkle lights, swirling floor: one magical night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (13\u00e2\u20ac\u009d x 18\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Donna visited this week to drop off a few blocks for an upcoming guild meeting. She also brought along scraps she had just picked up from a local seamstress. I left the bits of pink satin and tulle, the swirled black fabric and suiting fabric piled on my desk. Later that night I [&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\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}