{"id":2922,"date":"2014-08-20T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2922"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T07:51:54","slug":"jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2922","title":{"rendered":"Jackpot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After every swap I participate in I say that I won&#8217;t do it again; but I always do. The last swap I joined was the Schnitzel &amp; Boo mini quilt swap and you may remember the <a title=\"Hurty Finger\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilts\/hurty-finger\" target=\"_blank\">half\u00a0circles <\/a>I cut and started appliqu\u00e9ing. I can now reveal that I made this quilt, which I named &#8216;Over the Hills and Far Away&#8217; for <a title=\"Amy's Crafty Shenanigans\" href=\"http:\/\/craftyshenanigans.blogspot.ch\" target=\"_blank\">Amy<\/a>. I met Amy at the Fat Quarterly Retreat 2012 and 2013 and it was just lovely to make something for someone I really, really like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2923\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2892-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Over the Hills and Far Away\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a>I sent her the mini with some extras but none of these were recorded here at Shark&#8217;s Dinner. That&#8217;s right, I was so excited about sending the package that I never took a photograph. Blogger of the year? Don&#8217;t think so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2895.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2924\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_2895-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Over the Hills and Far Away\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The design of this mini was something I cooked up for a big quilt. I was going to do the backgrounds in greens and yellows and do the half circles in light blue. The fabric pull has been sitting in my cupboard for two years now but the quilt still hasn&#8217;t been made.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let me show you now what I received in this swap and you will understand why I keep joining these swaps again and again. This one is a stunner and I feel like the luckiest girl around. <a title=\"Patchwork Alley\" href=\"http:\/\/patchworkalley.blogspot.ch\" target=\"_blank\">Alison<\/a>\u00a0is one talented lady!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2926\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0010-1024x906.jpg\" alt=\"Tea with Kate Spain\" width=\"584\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, the photo bomber had to have his say too. I love everything about this mini: the colours, the fabric, the beautiful execution. I mean just look at the details:<a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2927\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0007-1024x695.jpg\" alt=\"Tea with Kate Spain\" width=\"584\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cake looks good enough to eat, doesn&#8217;t it? And look at the blackberries.<a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2928\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0009-1024x644.jpg\" alt=\"Tea with Kate Spain\" width=\"584\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tea, anyone? I&#8217;d love a tea pot like that. The FMQ is just incredible too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2929\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_0008-1024x836.jpg\" alt=\"Tea with Kate Spain\" width=\"584\" height=\"476\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little Miss Bossy-Boots tried to get me to hang it in her bedroom but I denied her the pleasure and have hung it in the sewing\/craft room instead. I really would have loved to have it in the kitchen but I have no walls I can hang it on. So it&#8217;s joined the other minis on the wall and I love looking at it and being inspired by it. There were some extras too, a cute pink ribbon and some 3D stickers for card making but Little Miss Bossy-Boots got her little hands on those before I had a chance to take pictures (Hmm, I&#8217;m sensing a theme here). I definitely hit the jackpot here.<\/p>\n<p>PS Oops, I&#8217;ve done it again. Sandy, aka Curly Boy, is organising a swap and I&#8217;ve signed up. If you&#8217;d like to join too, hop on over to his <a title=\"Enfurnoh\" href=\"http:\/\/enfurnoh.blogspot.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> and fill out the form. You&#8217;ve got three days to do so!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After every swap I participate in I say that I won&#8217;t do it again; but I always do. The last swap I joined was the Schnitzel &amp; Boo mini quilt swap and you may remember the half\u00a0circles I cut and started appliqu\u00e9ing. I can now reveal that I made this quilt, which I named &#8216;Over&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2922\">Continue Reading Jackpot!<\/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],"tags":[83,186,265,278,354,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922"}],"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=2922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}