{"id":2564,"date":"2015-03-24T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2015-07-31T15:19:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T20:19:35","slug":"tired-fingersfinished-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2564","title":{"rendered":"Tired fingers\/finished quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BatikWindingWaysSofa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-2575\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BatikWindingWaysSofa.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"420\" height=\"413\" \/><\/a>The urgently needed sofa quilt for a sick friend is finished and ready for delivery.\u00a0 Total time from first fabric cut to finish and laundering was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>41 days<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s close to my record of 39 days for a finished sofa quilt (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1907\">Log Cabin Sofa Quilt<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>It is Winding Way\/Wheel of Mystery sofa quilt made with batik and hand-dyed fabric.\u00a0 Half of the blocks were hand pieced while the other half were made on a vintage sewing machine.\u00a0 The inner border is mottled black with a piano keys outer border.\u00a0 It is bound with a blotchy black\/red\/blue speckled with gold fabric and hand quilted with YLI 40\/3 ply cotton quilting thread.\u00a0 The label is hand embroidered.<\/p>\n<p>The backing is grey with a small black print but was too small so I added a strip of mottled black to bring it to size.\u00a0 I rounded the mitered corners.\u00a0 The batting is Hobbs PolyDown.\u00a0 Finished size is 65&#8243; x 58&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>As an added bonus while making this quilt top, I was able to finish stitching the blocks for the unfinished Wonky Stars quilt.\u00a0 I have stitched them together and am currently deciding about a border.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s done!\u00a0 The urgently needed sofa quilt for a sick friend is finished and ready for delivery.\u00a0 Total time from first fabric cut to finish and laundering was 41 days.\u00a0 That&#8217;s close to my record of 39 days for a finished sofa quilt (see Log Cabin Sofa Quilt). It is Winding Way\/Wheel of Mystery sofa<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2564\"> (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":[14,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564"}],"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=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2583,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions\/2583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}