Because my son’s name is Jacob, I felt compelled to make a Jacob’s Ladder quilt in the popular color scheme.\u00a0 This top was machine pieced.<\/span><\/p>\n At the time, I would often spend weekends with my grandmother and help her quilt some of her many quilt tops.\u00a0 I finally successfully talked her into helping me quilt one of mine and this is the one we did together.<\/span><\/p>\n It is single bed sized with lofty batting and a white backing hand quilted with white thread.\u00a0 The backing was brought around to the front to serve as a border\/binding.<\/span><\/p>\n Today, her large stitches are very precious to me and I love the contrast between her stitches and mine.\u00a0 It makes this otherwise ho-hum quilt very special.<\/span><\/p>\n Jacob’s Ladder – 1984<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Though I’ve always been partial to scrappy quilts, there was a time when I was swayed by fabric and color trends.\u00a0 This quilt represents one of those times. Because my son’s name is Jacob, I felt compelled to make a Jacob’s Ladder quilt in the popular color scheme.\u00a0 This top was machine pieced. At (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285"}],"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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1285\/revisions\/1827"}],"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=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Jacob's](\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jacobs-Ladder-1984.jpg\")
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