{"id":90,"date":"2005-08-11T23:58:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T23:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=90"},"modified":"2005-08-11T23:58:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T23:58:08","slug":"big_dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/big_dots\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished piecing the top of my Love Beads quilt for the Modern Quilt-Along.  Wheeee!  I&#8217;m happy with how it turned out.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album45\/aac.sized.jpg\"width=300 alt=\"Love Beads Top\"><\/center><br \/>\nI really wish I could take some better pictures.  Part of the issue is that I still need to give it a good ironing before it will look better.  After that, I&#8217;ll need to sqaure it up and trim the edges (the last two circles on each side will end up looking like they&#8217;re moving off the quilt) and the top will all be done.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been debating trying machine quilting for finishing this, but I think I&#8217;m going to end up hand quilting it after all.  I just like the look of it so much.  I do have a different strategy for going at the quilting though.  I&#8217;m going for close quilting to give the effect of a lot of texture.  It&#8217;s such a visually stimulating pattern that I think I need to continue that with the quilting too.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so excited to have this part done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished piecing the top of my Love Beads quilt for the Modern Quilt-Along. Wheeee! I&#8217;m happy with how it turned out. I really wish I could take some better pictures. Part of the issue is that I still need to give it a good ironing before it will look better. After that, I&#8217;ll <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/big_dots\/\" 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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-quilt-along"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}