{"id":2359,"date":"2013-04-02T08:54:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T07:54:18","slug":"finish-a-long-my-finishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"Finish-A-Long: My Finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Finish-A-Long, hosted by the lovely Leanne of <a title=\"She Can Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/shecanquilt.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">She Can Quilt<\/a>, has really helped me finish some WIPs that had been lying around for quite a while. My <a title=\"Lets Finish This\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/finish-a-long\/lets-finish-this\" target=\"_blank\">list<\/a> contained five projects and I finished four; not bad going for me. Of course, the one project I didn&#8217;t finish was the biggest one, Little Miss Bossy-Boots&#8217; log cabin quilt. I&#8217;m going to put it on the list for the next quarter and make sure I start with it.<\/p>\n<p>I was really happy to finish my <a title=\"First Finish\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilting-2\/first-finish\" target=\"_blank\">Hexagon Heart<\/a> which I started in April and was destined to raise funds for my local cancer treatment centre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2138\" alt=\"Hexie Heart Cushion\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0005-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The second finish was my Double Circle of Flying Geese, or <a title=\"A Skein of Geese\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/home-projects\/a-skein-of-geese\" target=\"_blank\">Skein of Geese<\/a> as I called it which I started at the Fat Quarterly Retreat in July. Once I got home I was a bit worried that I wouldn&#8217;t be able to remember how to foundation paper piece so I put all the bits and pieces in a drawer. Once I got everything out and got started I realised that not only did I remember how to do it, I also thoroughly enjoyed the process. It&#8217;s now sitting on my sofa being used every day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2158\" alt=\"Double Circle of Flying Geese\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0042-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two of my finishes ended up in my sister&#8217;s house: <a title=\"Sewing Kit\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/home-projects\/sewing-kit\" target=\"_blank\">the sewing kit<\/a> I made for her and the <a title=\"Spinning Around\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/home-projects\/spinning-around\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Spin Me Around&#8217; <\/a>cushion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mosaic0dfa77c2cc7f3df57c5c7e7610d885bb4f438d83.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2362\" alt=\"Kris's Things\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/mosaic0dfa77c2cc7f3df57c5c7e7610d885bb4f438d83.jpg\" width=\"615\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I realise that I only finished a few small things but I&#8217;m so grateful to FAL because without it I probably only would have finished the sewing kit and started a lot more new projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Finish-A-Long, hosted by the lovely Leanne of She Can Quilt, has really helped me finish some WIPs that had been lying around for quite a while. My list contained five projects and I finished four; not bad going for me. Of course, the one project I didn&#8217;t finish was the biggest one, Little Miss&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2359\">Continue Reading Finish-A-Long: My Finishes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[188,201,211,215,220,256,407],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359"}],"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=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}