{"id":3152,"date":"2017-07-25T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2017-07-25T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:58:30","slug":"doughnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Doughnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like doughnuts? I do, although since I&#8217;ve started reducing sugar in my diet the last couple of years I haven&#8217;t had many. However, I don&#8217;t really mean the edible kind but rather the quilty one. I&#8217;ve started sewing a new quilt which I call the positive doughnut (#SDpositivedoughnutquilt on Instagram).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilts\/doughnuts\/attachment\/img_8347\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3153\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8347-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This block is, I believe, called the Greek Cross, but to me it looks a bit like a doughnut. The difference is that the hole in the middle looks like a plus sign. I&#8217;m using blue and low volume fabrics from my stash. \u00a0Sometimes I&#8217;m not sure whether I have enough of one fabric for a whole doughnut or the background of one quilt so to help me with that problem I&#8217;ve cut the pieces from paper which I can lay on the fabric to check.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilts\/doughnuts\/attachment\/img_8368\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3154\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8368-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m enjoying these blocks tremendously as they are big (12.5&#8243; unfinished) and easy. There are no corners and no points that need to match and no bulky seams. In fact, I believe this is the perfect block for a beginner or a quilting bee.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking this picture I&#8217;ve made another three blocks which means I&#8217;m halfway there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilts\/doughnuts\/attachment\/img_8418\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3156\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_8418-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of writing a tutorial for this block but that won&#8217;t be tomorrow as I&#8217;m off to IKEA to buy some more of the numbers fabric for the back. TTFN!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like doughnuts? I do, although since I&#8217;ve started reducing sugar in my diet the last couple of years I haven&#8217;t had many. However, I don&#8217;t really mean the edible kind but rather the quilty one. I&#8217;ve started sewing a new quilt which I call the positive doughnut (#SDpositivedoughnutquilt on Instagram). This block is,&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3152\">Continue Reading Doughnuts<\/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":[236,368,376,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}