{"id":4973,"date":"2013-02-09T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T15:54:05","slug":"first-finish-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"First Finish of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of a nose to the grindstone day yesterday. I was so determined to get the <em>Siblings Together<\/em> quilt finished that after a frankly quite horrible run in a blizzard and thick snow yesterday morning I put the radio on and basted and quilted like a mad woman. I finally got the binding sewn on in front of the television last night. Phew.<\/p>\n<p>So here it is&#8230;.and I hope that sometime in the summer it will make a little girl in care happy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the front&#8230;.A <em>Spring Fever<\/em> jelly roll for the blocks (started in John&#8217;s class at FQR last year) sashed with bright pink <em>Gypsy Bandana<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?attachment_id=4974\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-4974\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4974\" alt=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and the back&#8230;pieced together from the <em>Red Rose Farm<\/em> spots, plus the border from the <em>Gypsy Bandana<\/em> fabric that I used for the sashing and a long strip of green <em>Gypsy Bandana<\/em> to make it wide enough. The green was then used for the binding too. \u00a0I&#8217;m really, really happy with how the back turned out.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?attachment_id=4975\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-4975\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4975\" alt=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/21.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/21.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/21-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I quilted this little lovely doing loop the loops with bright pink machine embroidery thread &#8211; and it nearly drove me bonkers. The first half went really well, but then the thread started fraying and breaking about every 30cm, which meant that each time I had to sort out the mess and rethread. I have no idea why that happened and changing the needle, faffing around with the tension and cleaning the machine didn&#8217;t seem to improve things&#8230;but I got done in the end, although it probably took a hour longer than it should have!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?attachment_id=4976\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-4976\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4976\" alt=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I only used fabrics from my stash&#8230;.most of which had been there a good long while, so I&#8217;m claiming 8m fabric use in my stash-busting efforts.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;. what&#8217;s next??<\/p>\n<p>Happy weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bit of a nose to the grindstone day yesterday. I was so determined to get the Siblings Together quilt finished that after a frankly quite horrible run in a blizzard and thick snow yesterday morning I put the radio on and basted and quilted like a mad woman. I finally got the [&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":[9,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-1id","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973"}],"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=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4979,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions\/4979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}