{"id":2759,"date":"2014-03-28T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2014-03-28T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:50:50","slug":"athea-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"Athea Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been on a steady course to finish WIPs since confessing to them all on my FAL 2014 list<\/a>. Now, you may remember that I was rather overambitious when I put fifteen (!) projects on there but I thought it would be better to have a big range of projects so that I could pick and choose what I wanted to work on. It’s worked rather well as this is project number five that I’ve finished and number six is being worked on as you read this post.<\/p>\n

\"Athea<\/a>Athea Spring, as I call this cushion, was made using the first templates I made available on my blog. They are drawn by hand and you can find them here<\/a>. I made three different versions of this pattern and I love them all. They look so different depending on the fabrics you choose.<\/p>\n

\"R\u00e9alt<\/a>R\u00e9alt Glas is on my wall of minis in my sewing room, Spring is a cushion on my sofa and Bloom is destined to become the centre of a medallion quilt (but that won’t be done before Q2 of the FAL, I’m sure).<\/p>\n

Right, back to my cushion. I quilted it in a spiral in the most gorgeous variegated Aurifil 40wt (no. 4654) which is a perfect match to the green solids in the centre. My spiral is pretty wobbly and there are a few jumps but all in all I love it. I did learn the hard way, though, that I should have gone the other way. Ah, you live and learn. This will definitely not be the last time I’m quilting in a spiral.<\/p>\n

The back of the cushion is a shirt of my Dad’s which I kept after he died almost three years ago. I wanted to make a cushion or quilt for Little Miss Bossy-Boots to remember him by. However, when I saw how well it matched Athea Spring I decided to use it for this. I still have the back and sleeves of the shirt for a different project.<\/p>\n

\"Baba's<\/a>This was the quickest cushion back in the history of cushion backs and I wish I had kept a few more of his shirts.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back tomorrow with an update on the EPP mini<\/a> for Karie and, if you’re reading this Andrea, a tutorial for my Modern Churn Dash quilt<\/a> at the beginning of next week.<\/p>\n

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I have been on a steady course to finish WIPs since confessing to them all on my FAL 2014 list. Now, you may remember that I was rather overambitious when I put fifteen (!) projects on there but I thought it would be better to have a big range of projects so that I could… Continue Reading Athea Spring<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23],"tags":[92,93,188,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759"}],"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=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}