{"id":3052,"date":"2016-02-07T11:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2016-02-07T11:07:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T10:07:15","slug":"quilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I practiced my free motion quilting (fmq) on a piece of paper before starting on the quilt. I always do that as I&#8217;ve found that it helps me remember where I&#8217;m going. Sometimes I concentrate so hard on the quilting that I forget what I&#8217;m quilting. Blonde much?!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilting-2\/quilting\/attachment\/img_5703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3053\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3053\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5703.jpg\" alt=\"Honeysuckle Practice\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love fmq much more than straight line quilting although there are quilts that simply cry out for a few straight lines. This one isn&#8217;t one of them, I thought of quilting ivy on it first but my ivy didn&#8217;t look quite right, so I changed to honeysuckle. I&#8217;m not sure they all look like honeysuckle but once the quilt&#8217;s washed and puffed up it won&#8217;t matter all that much, I hope. It&#8217;s all about the texture after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilting-2\/quilting\/attachment\/img_5713\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3055\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_5713-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Honeysuckle\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I practiced my free motion quilting (fmq) on a piece of paper before starting on the quilt. I always do that as I&#8217;ve found that it helps me remember where I&#8217;m going. Sometimes I concentrate so hard on the quilting that I forget what I&#8217;m quilting. Blonde much?! I love fmq much more than straight&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3052\">Continue Reading Quilting<\/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":[216,226,260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052"}],"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=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}