{"id":2855,"date":"2011-11-11T17:17:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T15:20:02","slug":"the-delights-of-stars-and-flying-geese-made-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2855","title":{"rendered":"The delights of stars and flying geese&#8230;made easier&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stars and flying geese have always been two of my very favourite things to sew &#8211; as shown in the oodles of starry quilts I&#8217;ve turned out over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you won&#8217;t believe this, but they just got easier&#8230;round here anyway!<\/p>\n<p>In Houston I had my arm twisted to buy the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltinaday.com\" ><em>Quilt in a Day<\/em> <\/a><em>Flying Geese<\/em> ruler sets. I couldn&#8217;t (at that stage) really see what the big deal was all about. Now I certainly can (after playing with the ruler for an hour or two!).<\/p>\n<p>You see, this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2856\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/15-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>turns into this&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/23.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2857\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/23.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/23-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and are cut down using the ruler into these&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/32.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2858\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/32.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/32-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>perfect geese every time &#8211; which also means near to perfect stars!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/42.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2859\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/42.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/42-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heaven! And just so you know, I wasn&#8217;t paid to say this &#8211; I&#8217;m just tickled pink to have found something so small that makes such a big difference!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars and flying geese have always been two of my very favourite things to sew &#8211; as shown in the oodles of starry quilts I&#8217;ve turned out over the years. Well, you won&#8217;t believe this, but they just got easier&#8230;round here anyway! In Houston I had my arm twisted to buy the Quilt in a [&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-K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855"}],"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=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}