{"id":250,"date":"2013-06-30T15:11:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=250"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:45:22","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:45:22","slug":"moment-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/moment-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment of Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one thing to enter a quilt in an open exhibition, quite another to enter a judged show.<\/p>\n<p>Before the San Mateo County Fair, I\u2019d spent a couple more weeks of hand quilting. Finishing the top of the hearts, I decided the squares on point could use a little attention. I\u2019m ambivalent about quilting another zigzag around the burgundy border; the squares will turn into diamond along the top and bottom, so maybe I\u2019ll just leave it for later.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky part is quilting the internal hanging sleeve. Luckily, I find a flat mirror from my kit that just fits and I set to work quilting the front, then flipping it over to mock-quilt (there\u2019s no batting) the striped side. Easy peas-y!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Heart2nd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-253 alignleft\" style=\"margin-right: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Heart 2nd Place\" alt=\"Heart2nd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Heart2nd-225x300.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Heart2nd-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Heart2nd.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a>As I turned it in for judging, the woman commented how nice it was to see so many hand-quilted entries. Then I waited for judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I made it to the fair with friends on Saturday and found that my Labor of Love had taken 2nd place!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what a relief. The recognition after so many years (and miss-steps) is so satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230; I wonder if they would accept it at PIQF this fall? Be brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one thing to enter a quilt in an open exhibition, quite another to enter a judged show. Before the San Mateo County Fair, I\u2019d spent a couple more weeks of hand quilting. Finishing the top of the hearts, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/moment-of-truth\/\">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":[42,27,11,41],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilty-projects","tag-heart","tag-quilt-show","tag-quilting","tag-winner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}