{"id":2772,"date":"2014-04-01T14:48:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:48:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T12:48:26","slug":"finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"Finishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was the end of March yesterday which also means the end of Q1 of the Finish-Along hosted by Katy of <a title=\"The Littlest Thistle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-littlest-thistle.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Littlest Thistle<\/a>. You may remember -as I have been harping on about it- that I put fifteen projects on <a title=\"Finish-A-Long 2014 Q1\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/finish-a-long\/finish-a-long-2014-q1\" target=\"_blank\">my FAL list<\/a> and I&#8217;m happy to report that I finished six of them.<\/p>\n<p>1. <a title=\"Athea Spring\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/athea-spring\" target=\"_blank\">Athea Spring<\/a> was turned into a finished cushion. It sits on my sofa and makes me happy every time I look at it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_00371.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2760\" alt=\"Athea Spring\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_00371-1024x677.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. The DQS 14 mini, <a title=\"Liberty Bloom\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/liberty-bloom\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Bloom<\/a>, was finished and sent all the way to Canada.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_00073.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2666\" alt=\"Liberty Bloom\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_00073-1012x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. <a title=\"Cover Me!\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/home-projects\/cover-me\" target=\"_blank\">In the Woods<\/a> was turned into a sewing machine cover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0037.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2750\" alt=\"Sewing Machine Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC_0037-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>4. The <a title=\"A Triceratops with Cellulite\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/home-projects\/a-triceratops-with-cellulite\" target=\"_blank\">Triceratops<\/a> was sewn and turned into a cushion for Little Miss Bossy-Boots. This was a truly fun pattern to test and you can find it in Juliet&#8217;s <a title=\"Juliet's Craftsy Shop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.craftsy.com\/user\/780650\/pattern-store?SSAID=743483\" target=\"_blank\">shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_00062.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2678\" alt=\"Triceratops Cushion\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_00062-1024x712.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a>5. <a title=\"Modern Churn Dash Ta dah!\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilting-2\/modern-churn-dash-ta-dah\" target=\"_blank\">A Dashing Echo<\/a> was quilted and bound and now resides on my bed where Charlie my cat and I fight about it. Even though the quilt isn&#8217;t bound in the picture below I picked it because I wanted to show you how much Charlie loves it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2732\" alt=\"Charlie asleep\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_2242-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6. <a title=\"Fly, Butterfly, Fly!\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/fly-butterfly-fly\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty Butterfly<\/a> was turned into a cute little cushion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2685\" alt=\"Butterfly\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/DSC_0001-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rather happy with how much I&#8217;ve achieved. The other projects will end up on Q2 of the <a title=\"Finish-A-Long\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-littlest-thistle.com\/p\/finish-along-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">Finish-Along<\/a>, I&#8217;m sure. I&#8217;m very pleased to report that I haven&#8217;t actually started any new WIPs. Everything I&#8217;ve started in the last three months I&#8217;ve finished. Long may it continue!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thelittlestthistlecraftshop.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finish Along 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-V5JrCmoEsso\/UrzDNORUlnI\/AAAAAAAAIYE\/B3wRkHeMJr0\/s1600\/FAL-2014-Button.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the end of March yesterday which also means the end of Q1 of the Finish-Along hosted by Katy of The Littlest Thistle. You may remember -as I have been harping on about it- that I put fifteen projects on my FAL list and I&#8217;m happy to report that I finished six of them.&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2772\">Continue Reading Finishing<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772"}],"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=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}