{"id":67,"date":"2005-02-15T19:42:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2005-02-15T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T19:42:04","slug":"ebay_find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/ebay_find\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was browsing though quilting things on eBay, and I found something that I thought was totally cool!  I&#8217;m not usually much of an eBay shopper&#8211;I tend to get bored looking through it&#8211;but I was pumped when I found a set of 10 Grandmother&#8217;s Flower Garden blocks.  They came yesterday in the mail&#8211;an exciting Valentine&#8217;s Day arrival!  The prints look like the fabric is from the late 30&#8217;s or 40&#8217;s.  I&#8217;m not that good with identifing dates of fabric, so if anyone could give me a better idea about it, let me know.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album36\/aaa.sized.jpg\" width=300 alt=\"Granny's eBay Flowers\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nParts of the flowers have been hand pieced, while some pieces in the same block were sewn on a machine.  And while the fabric itself is in pretty good wear, there are a couple of stains on the blocks that I&#8217;d like to try to take out, if it&#8217;s possible to do, without destroying the fabric.  If there&#8217;s no way to do that, it&#8217;s not too big of a deal.  It just shows its age that way.  Does anyone have any good tips for that?<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album36\/aab.sized.jpg\" width=300 alt=\"Granny's Stains\"\/><\/center><br \/>\nDespite all of that excitement, I have been progressing with my wedding quilt for our friends.  I have two full rows pieced together.  Yay!  Only three more left to go!  (I&#8217;m never going to get it finished!!!)  But I have made a promise to Steve (one half of the wedding quilt&#8217;s recipients) that from now on, I&#8217;ll hide the pictures of the quilt.  (He wants to be surprised!)  So anyone who isn&#8217;t getting my quilt as a gift&#8211;click on!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI so know that Laura is still reading this (she&#8217;s the other half of the quilt&#8217;s recipients!!)  I need to press the seams to get it to lay flat, but otherwise, I&#8217;m pretty pleased with how my work looks after only two rows.  I&#8217;m more pleased with my color choices now that I can see all four of the dimond shapes.  Now if I could just get the rest of the top put together!  It&#8217;s taking such a long time!<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avenueb.org\/minshall\/albums\/album33\/aaf.sized.jpg\" width=300 alt=\"Wedding Quilt: Row 2\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was browsing though quilting things on eBay, and I found something that I thought was totally cool! I&#8217;m not usually much of an eBay shopper&#8211;I tend to get bored looking through it&#8211;but I was pumped when I found a set of 10 Grandmother&#8217;s Flower Garden blocks. They came yesterday in the mail&#8211;an <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/ebay_find\/\" 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}