{"id":85,"date":"2005-10-17T09:40:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-17T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=85"},"modified":"2005-10-17T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2005-10-17T18:36:41","slug":"swirls-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Swirls of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many months ago Linda Lee sent me several old dresses she&#8217;d been saving but wouldn&#8217;t be wearing again.  In exchange for getting all the beautiful fabrics, I said I would make her a quilt.  Well, I finally finished.  What started as sketches based on seeing some of Linda Lee&#8217;s painting, came to life on the floor and later with my sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/PA113189-1.JPG\" height=\"375\" width=\"418\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pa113189-1\" \/><br \/>\nI call it &#8216;Swirls of Life&#8217; and each part of the triptych has a subtitle: Calm, Creativity and Chaos.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close of up each quilt.  I wanted to quilt each one differently to represent the different phases of life and to also allow me a bit of practice.  And to sparkle things a bit, I added pieces of costume jewelry.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/PA113197.JPG\" height=\"188\" width=\"250\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pa113197\" \/><br \/>\nCalm<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/PA113196.JPG\" height=\"205\" width=\"250\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pa113196\" \/><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\"><br \/>\n<\/span>Creativity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/images\/PA113194.JPG\" height=\"196\" width=\"250\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pa113194\" \/><br \/>\nChaos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many months ago Linda Lee sent me several old dresses she&#8217;d been saving but wouldn&#8217;t be wearing again. In exchange for getting all the beautiful fabrics, I said I would make her a quilt. Well, I finally finished. What started as sketches based on seeing some of Linda Lee&#8217;s painting, came to life on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}