{"id":1868,"date":"2013-11-30T13:50:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T19:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1868"},"modified":"2015-02-26T17:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T23:53:53","slug":"1995-fan-quilt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1868","title":{"rendered":"1995 &#8211; Shel &#038; Jer&#8217;s Fan Lap Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Back in the late 1980&#8217;s, I saw an article in a magazine about &#8216;quilt-as-you-go&#8217; blocks and quilts.\u00a0 I decided to try it utilizing my sewing machine and &#8216;Grandmother&#8217;s Fan&#8217; pattern.\u00a0 I made several dozen blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I kept these blocks stashed away in my antique blanket chest along with other tokens and handiwork my family and I had assembled through the years.\u00a0 My friend Shelly would often visit and as we sat on the bed and talked, she looked through that chest.\u00a0 She seemed attracted to the fan blocks, laying them out and selecting her favorite blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Years later, I decided to assemble some of the blocks into a lap\/sofa quilt for Shelly and husband Jerry for Christmas.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sorry I didn&#8217;t have time to do more hand quilting on it but she seems to like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 403px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Fan-quilt1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Fan-quilt1.jpg\" alt=\"Fan quilt1\" width=\"403\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shel and Jer&#8217;s Fan Quilt (photo provided by recipient)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the late 1980&#8217;s, I saw an article in a magazine about &#8216;quilt-as-you-go&#8217; blocks and quilts.\u00a0 I decided to try it utilizing my sewing machine and &#8216;Grandmother&#8217;s Fan&#8217; pattern.\u00a0 I made several dozen blocks. I kept these blocks stashed away in my antique blanket chest along with other tokens and handiwork my family and<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1868\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868"}],"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=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1868\/revisions\/2540"}],"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=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}