{"id":1279,"date":"2011-01-17T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2011-01-17T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:54:06","slug":"now-i-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Now I get it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martinique is bound and finished and this morning I washed and tumbled it.<\/p>\n<p>And now I understand what everyone has been talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought?<\/p>\n<p>My less than loved project has turned into a lived-in looking, cosy and delightful quilt. I really truly got what everyone had been talking about when I took it out of the tumble dryer and saw the transformation. Gone is the slightly stiff shine of the fabrics, gone are the rather iffy bits of quilting (not miraculously requilted by the quilting fairies in the tumble dryer, but just lost in the delightful crinkliness), and it just feels so different. It&#8217;s now crying out to be snuggled under with a good book and a cup of tea.<\/p>\n<p>Which is what I&#8217;m about to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m not feeling guilty on that front either &#8211; the MRI showed that I do have a fracture in my spine, so I&#8217;m now going to take life appropriately easy. I can&#8217;t wait until the house slaves come home from school!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martinique is bound and finished and this morning I washed and tumbled it. And now I understand what everyone has been talking about. Who would have thought? My less than loved project has turned into a lived-in looking, cosy and delightful quilt. I really truly got what everyone had been talking about when I took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}