{"id":1921,"date":"2012-11-12T15:56:38","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2012-11-12T15:56:38","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T15:56:38","slug":"noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1921","title":{"rendered":"Noel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided not to have a stall at the two Christmas Fairs in our village and I love the fact that I don&#8217;t have to sew under pressure. Instead I took out the Blitzen by Basic Grey for Moda mini charms I got at the Fat Quarterly Retreat and started playing. I love simple patchwork cushions and that was what I wanted to make from it. For a while I tried different combinations but it was only when I took out all the red charms and substituted them for a green shot cotton that it started to sing to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_00531.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1922\" title=\"Noel Cushion\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_00531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quilting is very wonky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0052.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1923\" title=\"Noel Quilting\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, I could say it was done on purpose but I would be lying. I need more practice to pull off FMQ (free motion quilting) but decided to go for it anyway. All in all I&#8217;m happy with the result despite the wonkiness. Please excuse the cat&#8217;s hairs, Charlie rather likes to lie right next to the sewing machine.<\/p>\n<p>You may have noticed that I take most of my cushion pictures in the same corner. Have you ever wondered why you never really see what the cushions are placed on?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1924\" title=\"Disaster\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DSC_0055.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why. Charlie uses the pouf as a scratching post. He also sleeps on it, hence the sheepskin and cushions. I have thought about re-covering it but how am I going to deter him from scratching it again? I think I might try making a lose cover and see how he copes with that. Anything&#8217;s better than this tattered disaster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I decided not to have a stall at the two Christmas Fairs in our village and I love the fact that I don&#8217;t have to sew under pressure. Instead I took out the Blitzen by Basic Grey for Moda mini charms I got at the Fat Quarterly Retreat and started playing. I love&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=1921\">Continue Reading Noel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,43],"tags":[111,134,154,319,338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}