{"id":2111,"date":"2011-06-08T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2011-06-08T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T14:53:37","slug":"a-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2111","title":{"rendered":"A start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent absolutely ages yesterday and this morning looking through my collection of books and patterns, not to mention the internet, for the perfect pattern for <em>Bliss<\/em>. There were no earth-shattering aha moments, but never one to give up without deciding on something, I decided to work with a pattern I already have: <em>The Thimble Blossoms Picnic Rollup<\/em> by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thimbleblossoms.com\" >Camille Roskelley<\/a>. I&#8217;m not going to make a picnic rollup because I&#8217;m really not the sort of girl that would ever use a beautiful quilt as a picnic tablecloth. Not with my family around anyway.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/13.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2113\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/13.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/13-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The plan so far &#8211; which may change as I go along &#8211; is to use the basic block pattern, but I will do the sashing differently &#8211; probably with <em>Bliss<\/em> squares in the corners and take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve had a very pleasant couple of hours this afternoon putting the first few blocks together and using some of my mountain of jelly roll 2 1\/2 inch strips. So far, so good. I&#8217;m liking what I see, but I&#8217;m feeling just a tiny bit guilty about starting something else new when I&#8217;ve got loads of other UFOs queuing up for some attention&#8230;..oh well, c&#8217;est la vie!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/21.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2114\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/21-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now back to work&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent absolutely ages yesterday and this morning looking through my collection of books and patterns, not to mention the internet, for the perfect pattern for Bliss. There were no earth-shattering aha moments, but never one to give up without deciding on something, I decided to work with a pattern I already have: The Thimble [&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-y3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111"}],"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=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2117,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}