{"id":1277,"date":"2013-05-13T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T02:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1277"},"modified":"2013-11-03T00:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:09:41","slug":"fence-rail-1985","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1277","title":{"rendered":"1985 &#8211; Fence Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After seeing me quilt over the years, a long-time family friend asked me to make a quilt for his mother.\u00a0 At the time, we were a little strapped for cash so I thought this would be a great opportunity to earn some &#8216;play&#8217; money. We agreed upon a price for a single-bed size, simple quilt.\u00a0 I sat him down with some pattern books and he selected Fence Rail.\u00a0 We then headed to the nearest fabric store where he selected fabric he felt his mother would like.\u00a0\u00a0 I found some fabric and other items for garment sewing and paid for the entire purchase, knowing I would collect when the quilt was finished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I contacted the friend when the quilt was complete.\u00a0 He loved it but when I presented him the invoice, he hemmed and hawed and said he&#8217;d hoped I would <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">give<\/span> the quilt to him.\u00a0 I really couldn&#8217;t afford at that time to give away my work nor my fabric investment so I folded up the quilt and told him I would hold it until he could pay.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still holding the quilt and our friendship (for many similar reasons) is no longer close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, this is a Fence Rail made with pricey (at the time) matchy-matchy &#8216;family&#8217; fabric, hand pieced and quilted on a pale blue sheet which was brought around the edges to make a border\/binding.\u00a0 It is single bed size.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 600px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fence-Rail-1985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1257\" alt=\"Fence Rail - 1985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Fence-Rail-1985.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"541\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fence Rail &#8211; 1985<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; After seeing me quilt over the years, a long-time family friend asked me to make a quilt for his mother.\u00a0 At the time, we were a little strapped for cash so I thought this would be a great opportunity to earn some &#8216;play&#8217; money. We agreed upon a price for a single-bed size, simple<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1277\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1277"}],"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=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1277\/revisions\/1378"}],"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=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}