{"id":139,"date":"2006-01-12T20:51:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-12T20:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=139"},"modified":"2006-01-12T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2006-01-12T20:51:26","slug":"ds_quiltalong_news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/ds_quiltalong_news\/","title":{"rendered":"DS Quilt-Along News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, an update about the quilt-along!  I&#8217;ve been slacking about a new DS post because I&#8217;ve been too ashamed that I&#8217;ve hardly been working on mine.  As of this afternoon though, I have my &#8220;Flock of Triangles&#8221; top completely pieced.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album46\/aag.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" lowsrc=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album46\/aag.thumb.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album46\/aag.sized.jpg\" width=325 alt=\"Flock of Triangles\"><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n(I thought I was going to get a decent picture this afternoon with the sun actually being out for once in the last month and a half, but I took too long and missed the light.)<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s really tiny&#8211;I had intended on it being a baby gift, but after I started assembling it, I decided I wanted it to be a wall hanging in my sewing room  (that&#8217;s not such a bad thing, is it?).  For being such a small project, at times it really was a big headache.  The first thing I missed was that I should have cut the triangles to not stretch (normally I like ignoring bias rules because I feel like it gives the quilts a more unique look that I tend to like).  My rows were off in a couple of spots, but since they also had the stretch, it wasn&#8217;t a problem to squeek an extra bit of length into them.  My other problem seemed to be not sewing off the tips of the triangles.  It was a little hard to make things straight, but I just figured that I&#8217;d go with it, tips missing and all.<br \/>\nAnd from what I&#8217;ve heard and seen from everyone participating, things seem to be going really well!  As Christmas presents, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillesnb.com\/\">Angela<\/a> made just about everyone she knew a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillesnb.com\/archives\/000215.html\">potholder<\/a>.  Seriously, she made SEVENTEEN of them.  She&#8217;s by far the winner of most DS projects completed!  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillesnb.com\/\">Jenne<\/a> also made an awsome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/lixolux\/33153.html\">potholder<\/a> with the cutest red and white polka dot fabric on it.  I loved it!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theknitterbox.typepad.com\/\">Stephanie<\/a> has set to work on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theknitterbox.typepad.com\/the_knitterbox\/sewing_and_quilting\/index.html\">What a Bunch of Squares.<\/a>&#8221;  It&#8217;s really off to a good start.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seedpodbooksandart.com\/\">Jessica<\/a> has taken on two projects at once.  She&#8217;s working on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedpodbooksandart.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/11\/19\/denyse-schmidt-quilt-along\/\">&#8220;Big Zig&#8221; and &#8220;One Tote Fits All.&#8221;<\/a>  Not only are they turning out great, but she&#8217;ll probably get tips from Denyse during her quilting class that she&#8217;s taking in Connecticut through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makeworkshop.com\/make_classes\/quilting.htm\">Make Workshop<\/a>!  How exciting for her!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll share more news as it comes&#8211;we have a few new additions to the quilt-along so hopefully we&#8217;ll be seeing great things from them too!<br \/>\nAlso, if for some reason you e-mailed me about wanting to participate and I haven&#8217;t returned your e-mail, I may not have gotten it on the first try.  Please either leave a comment, or retry my <a href=\"mailto:sarahminshall@yahoo.com\">e-mail<\/a><br \/> again.  Everyone who wants to participate is totally invited to join at any time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, an update about the quilt-along! I&#8217;ve been slacking about a new DS post because I&#8217;ve been too ashamed that I&#8217;ve hardly been working on mine. As of this afternoon though, I have my &#8220;Flock of Triangles&#8221; top completely pieced. (I thought I was going to get a decent picture this afternoon with the sun <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/ds_quiltalong_news\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denyse-schmidt-quilt-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}