{"id":1365,"date":"2010-06-20T22:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2010-06-20T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T03:23:03","slug":"my-common-threads-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1365","title":{"rendered":"my common threads quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

here’s the current state of my common threads “bookshelf” quilt<\/a> (hooray for the process pledge!).\u00c2\u00a0 last night i finally finished sewing all of the strips of books together (after adding about 30″ of my own “books”).\u00c2\u00a0 i have to give a big thank you to everyone in the common threads quilt bee who contributed to this quilt.\u00c2\u00a0 first of all, i love the enormous variety of prints that everyone contributed!\u00c2\u00a0 fantastic colors and i just love the way it’s looking so far!\u00c2\u00a0 secondly, even though i tried to be really precise (after hearing from others about how easily the books go wonky) even the small strip i sewed was challenging to keep straight.\u00c2\u00a0 this would have been a much different (and not so nice) looking quilt if i’d tried to do it alone.<\/p>\n

the next step will be to trim the top edges of each row of books (they’re different heights right now) and add in a strip of white fabric between each row.\u00c2\u00a0 but then … i still need to make a decision about the back (pieced?\u00c2\u00a0 maybe a solid piece of stripes?) and the quilting pattern and i’m toying with the idea of hiring a long arm quilter to do the quilting… any suggestions about a quilting pattern?\u00c2\u00a0 or tips for finding a good long arm quilter?\u00c2\u00a0 (i’m assuming i can just ask around at my local quilting shop for names??)\u00c2\u00a0 any good questions i need to ask?\u00c2\u00a0 i’m just a bit nervous about shoving a bed-sized quilt into my own sewing machine and i want this quilt to turn out really nice when it’s finished.\u00c2\u00a0 plus, i’d like it to be finished sometime this year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

here’s the current state of my common threads “bookshelf” quilt (hooray for the process pledge!).\u00c2\u00a0 last night i finally finished sewing all of the strips of books together (after adding about 30″ of my own “books”).\u00c2\u00a0 i have to give … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}