{"id":3084,"date":"2016-05-08T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T06:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3084"},"modified":"2019-03-11T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T16:34:14","slug":"dancing-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3084","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>English Paper Piecing (EPP) is my biggest love although I love sitting at my sewing machine too. Dancing Squares is a really easy pattern which I came up with because I wanted something simple that I could sew while watching tv as there are only two shapes.<\/p>\n<p>I started off with the low volume octagons before filling in the squares. I thought I would use my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oakshottfabrics.com\/categories\/Collections\/NEW-Ruby-Reds.aspx\">Oakshott Rubies <\/a>for the squares but as I was stitching I thought it would be fun with a rainbow of colours too. In the end I wasn&#8217;t sure which to use and asked people&#8217;s opinion on Instagram. Funnily enough the rainbow and the rubies got exactly the same amount of votes so I went for my first choice, the Oakshott Rubies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/dancing-squares\/attachment\/img_5868\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3090\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3090\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5868-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing Squares\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to only use the red and pink Oakshotts. In the end this little piece ended up at about 13&#8243; x 13&#8243; and I&#8217;m not sure what to do with it. Cushion cover? Mini quilt? Continue and turn it into a lap quilt? That could take a while.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/english-paper-piecing\/dancing-squares\/attachment\/img_5948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3091\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_5948-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing Squares\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;ll just gaze at it adoringly from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to make your own Dancing Squares mini\/cushion? \u00a0Click on this link for the pdf in three different sizes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dancing-Squares-Original.pdf\">Dancing Squares Original<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dancing-Squares-Bigger.pdf\">Dancing Squares Bigger<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Dancing-Squares-Biggest.pdf\">Dancing Squares Biggest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English Paper Piecing (EPP) is my biggest love although I love sitting at my sewing machine too. Dancing Squares is a really easy pattern which I came up with because I wanted something simple that I could sew while watching tv as there are only two shapes. I started off with the low volume octagons&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3084\">Continue Reading Dancing Squares<\/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],"tags":[156,188,189,225,244,305,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084"}],"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=3084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3084\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}