{"id":2088,"date":"2014-05-17T22:52:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:52:48","slug":"finally-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Finally finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Winding Ways sofa<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Winding-Ways-plus-dog-quilt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2090\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Winding-Ways-plus-dog-quilt.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"511\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> quilt is finally finished!\u00a0 It was set aside with only inches of binding still left to hand stitch but now it is complete and laundered.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why I allow other projects to distract me sometimes but it happens.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t let this one languish for months!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This sofa quilt was hand pieced and hand quilted.\u00a0 It measures 68&#8243; x 58&#8243;, has a narrow frame and wider border (both mitered).\u00a0 The backing is a wide, dark gray fabric with black curlicues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Winding-Ways-Back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2089\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Winding-Ways-Back.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"370\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>The hand quilting was done in a hoop, using YLI 40\/3 ply ecru colored thread, following the intertwined circles.\u00a0 The border is quilted in a twisted ribbon design and includes my name and date.\u00a0 The binding is black.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There were quite a few remaining bits and pieces left after assembling this quilt so I made extra blocks and assembled a dog quilt measuring 42&#8243; x 35&#8243;.\u00a0 I still have enough blocks left to make another one the same size.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Now it&#8217;s time to decide what&#8217;s next.\u00a0 I plan to make more shirts immediately but I feel another quilt in my near future.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shirl<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Winding Ways sofa quilt is finally finished!\u00a0 It was set aside with only inches of binding still left to hand stitch but now it is complete and laundered.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know why I allow other projects to distract me sometimes but it happens.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t let this one languish for months! This<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2088\"> (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\/2088"}],"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=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}