{"id":1039,"date":"2013-05-07T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1039"},"modified":"2014-05-16T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:35:12","slug":"jims-altered-lemoyne-star-2010","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1039","title":{"rendered":"2011 – Jim’s Altered Lemoyne Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This quilt was hand<\/span> pieced by my brother Jim who was born with one hand. To piece this quilt, he used his left arm and knee (much like I would use my left hand) while he stitched with his right. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jim started this quilt MANY years ago.\u00a0 One afternoon as we were visiting, we got on the conversation of quilts and I remembered this partially completed top.\u00a0 When I asked him about it, he searched in his closet and pulled out the top and enough finished blocks to make a full plus size quilt.\u00a0 Since the top had been abandoned for over 20 years, I offered to finish the quilt.\u00a0 He gave me the top and blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

I added the blocks to the quilt, then hand stitched borders from my own stash, purchased mottled black wide backing fabric, Hobbs Poly Down batting and ecru G\u00fctermann and YLI threads.\u00a0 It’s quilted within the printed fabric, 1\/4″ from the seams with a Celtic-style border and hand stitched mottled gray binding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because life kept getting in the way, this quilt took over 2 years to complete.\u00a0 When I presented the finished quilt to Jim, he LOVED it and petted it and tried it on his bed.\u00a0 He then folded it up and presented it to me.\u00a0 It’s a much loved treasure.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jim’s Altered Lemoyne Star 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

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  This quilt was hand pieced by my brother Jim who was born with one hand. To piece this quilt, he used his left arm and knee (much like I would use my left hand) while he stitched with his right. Jim started this quilt MANY years ago.\u00a0 One afternoon as we were visiting, we (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2068,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1039\/revisions\/2068"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}