{"id":317,"date":"2013-09-24T19:05:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T02:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=317"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:41:05","slug":"back-in-tie-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/back-in-tie-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in Tie-Land!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this Marin Autumn Retreat, I took another weekend trip to Tie-Land.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the last blue shirt and two-dozen ties, I used the \u2018string block\u2019 method to make a four blocks for the pillow top and plan four solid blocks out of wool trousers for the backside.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is to complete 8 pillows, so I\u2019ll need to cut the last 23 ties very judiciously to make this work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013TieLandPillow.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-325 alignright\" alt=\"2013TieLandPillow\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013TieLandPillow-300x298.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013TieLandPillow-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013TieLandPillow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013TieLandPillow.jpg 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my first one:<\/p>\n<p>By Sunday, I have pieced the first 4 tops. Did I mention that silk ties are very challenging to work with? It\u2019s a good start and I\u2019ll need a bit more focused time to make this happen by December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this Marin Autumn Retreat, I took another weekend trip to Tie-Land. Working with the last blue shirt and two-dozen ties, I used the \u2018string block\u2019 method to make a four blocks for the pillow top and plan four solid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/back-in-tie-land\/\">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":[28,11,10,38,37],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilty-projects","tag-piecing","tag-quilting","tag-sewing","tag-string-blocks","tag-tribute-quilts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}