{"id":701,"date":"2010-08-25T15:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2010-08-25T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T15:37:54","slug":"whirligig-is-done-its-definite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Whirligig is done…it’s definite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I feel as though I’ve been writing about my Whirligig<\/em> quilt for months. Well today, in between taking my daughter to start in a new class at school, washing the floors and visiting an old friend and her very new baby, I managed to finish the binding. And that means that it is really truly finished.<\/p>\n

So thanks to Carrie Nelson<\/a> for a great pattern and to Chris at the Quilt Room<\/a> for some lovely long arm quilting!<\/p>\n

I love this quilt. I love the fact that it is bright and colourful to counteract the long, cold, grey days of winter. I love that I made it with scraps that had been languishing in my fabric stash for way, way too long and that a lot of them were frankly hideous but worked in a quilt like this. I love that I was brave enough to send it away for my first (positive) experience of professional long arm quilting. And I sort of love the fact that the first leaves are starting to fall off the trees and there is a touch of autumn in the air in the early mornings and it won’t be too much longer until I can start using it (although I would also be very,very happy if we had a long, warm Indian summer before the snow comes!)<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, I’m now dreaming about what to tackle next. I realized though while I was searching for possible fabrics to bind the Whirligig<\/em>, that I don’t really have many large fabric pieces. Which means that it’s looking seriously like being another scrap quilt; maybe another Carrie Nelson scrap quilt. But as I like scrap quilts best anyway and I’m sticking to my guns about not ordering more fabric, that is perfectly fine with me!<\/p>\n

Watch this space!<\/p>\n

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

I feel as though I’ve been writing about my Whirligig quilt for months. Well today, in between taking my daughter to start in a new class at school, washing the floors and visiting an old friend and her very new baby, I managed to finish the binding. And that means that it is really truly […]<\/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-bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701"}],"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=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}