{"id":119,"date":"2011-11-22T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T06:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=119"},"modified":"2014-12-08T12:05:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T19:05:18","slug":"my-crazy-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/my-crazy-start\/","title":{"rendered":"My &#8216;Crazy&#8217; Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I just threw caution to the wind and tried something new.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CrazyStartNov2011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-121\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" title=\"CrazyStartNov2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CrazyStartNov2011-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CrazyStartNov2011-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/CrazyStartNov2011.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>I recently took a Crazy Quilt Workshop and started on an 8&#8243; square design that, once embellished, will fold into a nifty little tri-fold case for my needles &amp; embroidery scissors.<\/p>\n<p>This is my pre-sewn design consisting of scraps of velvety, satiny, bold fabrics. It starts with the nubby floral in the center and spirals around. It&#8217;s challenging for me to &#8216;just let it go&#8217; with no squares or triangles, but that&#8217;s part of the fun. And I kinda understand a few reason why they call them Crazy Quilts. It took me 5 hours just to place the fabrics for this square. (And I haven&#8217;t even started any embroidery stitches.) Yup, I&#8217;m certifiable!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve dipped my toe in the Crazy Quilt waters and I&#8217;m sure this is only the beginning! More progress in the weeks ahead as this is a Christmas gift. Shh!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I just threw caution to the wind and tried something new. I recently took a Crazy Quilt Workshop and started on an 8&#8243; square design that, once embellished, will fold into a nifty little tri-fold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/my-crazy-start\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilty-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}