{"id":686,"date":"2014-12-08T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/?p=686"},"modified":"2015-08-14T10:12:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T17:12:40","slug":"686","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/686\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a small project&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a surprise. I&#8217;ve known about her pregnancy for the past six months. I just wasn&#8217;t thinking that I would make anything&#8230;and then I had second thoughts. It might be nice to make a baby blanket. You know, it&#8217;s a small project and I seem to be able to finish smallish projects these days. So, why not! It&#8217;s only a couple weeks before Christmas. I&#8217;m not busy! Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my starting fabric:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltFabric.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-687 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltFabric-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltFabric\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltFabric-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltFabric-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltFabric.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One, two, three&#8230; Go!<\/p>\n<p>Update, Dec 15th: It\u2019s taken me a week to actually start this quilt. Nevertheless, I spent the afternoon cutting out the 9\u201d squares and then again diagonally at the 3\u201d to 6\u201d in order to make the tessellating windmill blocks.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! This inspires me for another quilt&#8230; next year. \ud83d\ude09<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltCut.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-702 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltCut-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltCut\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltCut-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltCut-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltCut.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once I laid out the pattern, the piecing went quickly, squares then rows. Only the remaining purple fabric is large enough to wrap around for backing and binding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBind.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-703 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBind-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltBind\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBind-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBind.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Unfortunately, it takes another week to have time to quilt it, but I\u2019m able to finish the binding in time to wrap and place under the tree. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-704 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltZ1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ1.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ3.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-705 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltZ3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltZ3.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBlock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-700 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBlock-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014BabyQuiltBlock\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBlock-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2014BabyQuiltBlock.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not really a surprise. I&#8217;ve known about her pregnancy for the past six months. I just wasn&#8217;t thinking that I would make anything&#8230;and then I had second thoughts. It might be nice to make a baby blanket. You know, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/686\/\">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":[24,11,10],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilty-projects","tag-gifting","tag-quilting","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mkreative.org\/babe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}