{"id":1072,"date":"2013-05-07T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1072"},"modified":"2013-11-03T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:02:08","slug":"acid-trip-around-the-world-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1072","title":{"rendered":"2008 &#8211; Acid Trip Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">LONG, long ago, before rotary cutters were available, I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis.\u00a0 I loved to hand quilt but with the weakness caused by this disorder, I was unable to use scissors to cut fabric.\u00a0 Thankfully, quilt kits were available so I purchased this one.\u00a0 I began hand piecing it when I was at my sickest, taking only a few stitches at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I hand stitched this top off and on for several years.\u00a0 The kit was originally designed for a twin bed but I wanted it larger.\u00a0 Fortunately, much of my strength eventually returned so I was able to purchase and scissor-cut solid color fabric to enlarge the quilt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The top was packed away for a long time and when I rediscovered it, I decided to use four solid strips for a border; wider at the head and foot.\u00a0 I backed the quilt with a navy blue sheet and hand quilted it.\u00a0 The body is a simple grid and the head and foot borders are quilted with overlapping Baptist Fans while the side borders are a single cable design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The quilt is queen size.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Trip-Around-the-World.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1262 \" alt=\"Acid Trip Around the World - 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Trip-Around-the-World.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Acid Trip Around the World &#8211; 2008<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1263\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Trip-quilting.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1263 \" alt=\"Trip quilting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Trip-quilting.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Trip quilting<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; LONG, long ago, before rotary cutters were available, I was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis.\u00a0 I loved to hand quilt but with the weakness caused by this disorder, I was unable to use scissors to cut fabric.\u00a0 Thankfully, quilt kits were available so I purchased this one.\u00a0 I began hand piecing it when I was<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1072\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072"}],"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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1072\/revisions\/1128"}],"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=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}