{"id":938,"date":"2013-04-15T17:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2013-11-02T23:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T04:54:26","slug":"938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Favorite quilt – thus far"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is, thus far, the longest-term quilting <\/span><\/p>\n

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Double Wedding Ring<\/p><\/div>\n

project I’ve made.\u00a0 It was started in 1989 and finished in 2006 as a gift for DH Bob in thanks for tolerating me through the years of our long marriage.\u00a0 Each piece was individually scissor-cut.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

During the 17 years it took to make, there was much time it was put aside as I made other quilts and when life got in the way.\u00a0 When the top was finished, I used it to entice Bob to built the quilt frame of my dreams.\u00a0 As soon as the frame was complete, this quilt was loaded, and a custom quilting design was developed.\u00a0 I call the design ‘daisies and darts’ which perfectly describes our marriage.\u00a0 We are daisy-poor and we both have tempers as sharp as darts.\u00a0 The center of each daisy has a circle within a circle, where I used our wedding rings as the template.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabric for this quilt came from my own scrap bag of fabric pieces left from making clothes<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Quilting<\/a>

Quilting detail<\/p><\/div>\n

for myself and family and from that of my grandmother, <\/span><\/p>\n

who was my quilting teacher\/inspiration.\u00a0 When she saw this Double Wedding Ring pattern, she made several, using her scraps and some of mine.\u00a0 My stash misses getting together with her for trading fabric.\u00a0 She also loved scrappy quilts and the added variety made them even better.\u00a0 I love laying under my quilts and remembering where the fabric originated.\u00a0 Each quilt contains a lifetime of memories.<\/span><\/p>\n

The quilt was completed with a ‘scallop and point’ knive-edge finish and all the piecing, quilting and finishing were done by hand.\u00a0 It is queen-plus size.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  This is, thus far, the longest-term quilting project I’ve made.\u00a0 It was started in 1989 and finished in 2006 as a gift for DH Bob in thanks for tolerating me through the years of our long marriage.\u00a0 Each piece was individually scissor-cut.\u00a0 During the 17 years it took to make, there was much time (continue reading…) <\/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\/938"}],"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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}