{"id":2870,"date":"2014-08-18T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2014-08-18T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T07:59:26","slug":"surf-and-turf-meets-the-birds-and-the-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Surf and Turf meets The Birds and The Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Jess from The Elven Garden<\/a> asked for pattern testers for her new Roundabout<\/a> pattern I couldn’t help myself and volunteered.<\/p>\n

I’m on a (self-imposed) fabric buying ban but still get the Simply Solids<\/a> stash club every month. When I saw all the pinks and oranges together I really wanted to make a quilt using just the two colours. However, when I started pulling fabrics for the Roundabout pattern I added some fresh blues to the mix. As a neutral I decided to use some Heather Ross fish which I got when Claudia from Machen und Tun M\u00fcnchen<\/a> had her destash.<\/p>\n

\"Roundabout<\/a><\/p>\n

I loved the combination and soon started cutting. I checked the fabric requirements for all the colours but not for the neutral as I was convinced that I had enough of it. Well, long story short, I didn’t. After piecing two quarters I realised that I wouldn’t be able to cut enough for another two. I wasn’t going to unpick; unpicking foundation paper piecing is a nightmare and I didn’t want to waste my precious Heather Ross. So I hunted around in my stash for a neutral I would be able to use for the other two quarters and found some My Happy Garden by Cloud9 Fabrics<\/a> that I used as backing for Little Miss Bossy-Boots’ flannel quilt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Roundabout<\/a><\/p>\n

The top was pieced with my beloved Aurifil thread (2000). I don’t really need to mention it anymore, do I? I don’t use any other thread since falling in love with it two years ago.<\/p>\n

I have a few things I need to finish before I can actually think about quilting this. The plan is \u00a0 to practice my fmq and hang it on my wall in the sewing room.<\/p>\n

The pattern hasn’t been released yet but once Jess has finished all the editing you will be able to win a copy on her blog as well as all the tester’s blogs, including mine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Jess from The Elven Garden asked for pattern testers for her new Roundabout pattern I couldn’t help myself and volunteered. I’m on a (self-imposed) fabric buying ban but still get the Simply Solids stash club every month. When I saw all the pinks and oranges together I really wanted to make a quilt using… Continue Reading Surf and Turf meets The Birds and The Bees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,44],"tags":[92,140,220,309,417,418,461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870"}],"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=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}