{"id":208,"date":"2010-04-13T16:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2010-04-13T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:32:08","slug":"progress_and_a_question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/progress_and_a_question\/","title":{"rendered":"progress and a question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to having a week off from work last week, I am nearly done with the hand quilting on my Bright Squares quilt.  Just four more blocks, plus the binding (my least favorite) to go.  I&#8217;m still pleased with my choice to rip out the machine quilting&#8211;just for the fact that the quilt lays flat when it&#8217;s spread out on the floor.  It seemed crazy at first to do it, but I&#8217;m glad that I made the decision.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/4518446061\/\" title=\"almost all quilted by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4518446061_b2593f67cf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"almost all quilted\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>And thinking about hand quilting, I wondered if I were to put together a hand quilting tutorial, would anyone be interested in it?  It seems that many more people machine quilt (which yes, I <strong>would<\/strong> like a good tutorial, thank you very much) their projects, and maybe it&#8217;s just because they&#8217;re afraid to try hand quilting.  Interested?  Let me know.  I&#8217;m thinking it might be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to having a week off from work last week, I am nearly done with the hand quilting on my Bright Squares quilt. Just four more blocks, plus the binding (my least favorite) to go. I&#8217;m still pleased with my choice to rip out the machine quilting&#8211;just for the fact that the quilt lays flat <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/progress_and_a_question\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}