{"id":1948,"date":"2014-01-25T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2016-07-11T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T18:12:57","slug":"first-finish-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"First finish for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1965\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 476px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/P-n-P.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1965 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/P-n-P.jpg\" alt=\"Patches 'n Pinwheels\" width=\"476\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patches &#8216;n Pinwheels<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I finished my first project of 2014.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a quilt for a baby boy expected to arrive in Spring.\u00a0 The pattern is called Patches &#8216;n Pinwheels and is machine assembled and hand quilted.\u00a0 I used high-loft polyester\u00a0 batting for extra softness and rapid drying. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of the pieces to assemble the quilt were left from other quilt projects.\u00a0 The dark and pale blue borders were left from making Jacob&#8217;s Shirt Quilt, the piano border is leftover pieces from The Between Quilt and the various scraps are from my ever-growing pile of clothing sewing scraps.\u00a0 I love having a large stash from which to choose.<\/p>\n<p>This is another hand quilted project from my hoop.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve found I truly enjoy hand stitching as I watch movies on my computer at night.\u00a0 It&#8217;s very relaxing and I try to have a project available for stitching every night.<\/p>\n<p>The finished quilt measures 54&#8243; x 42&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my first project of 2014.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a quilt for a baby boy expected to arrive in Spring.\u00a0 The pattern is called Patches &#8216;n Pinwheels and is machine assembled and hand quilted.\u00a0 I used high-loft polyester\u00a0 batting for extra softness and rapid drying. Most of the pieces to assemble the quilt were left from<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=1948\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}