{"id":11744,"date":"2012-01-07T06:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:32:45","slug":"first-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/first-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"First Finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11745\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PICT0648sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11745\" title=\"Young Man Pillowcases\" alt=\"Young Man Pillowcases\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PICT0648sm-300x230.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PICT0648sm-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PICT0648sm-1024x788.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/PICT0648sm.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Man Pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A la <a href=\"http:\/\/craftygardenmom.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/thursday-thoughts_15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Crafty Garden Mom&#8217;s Thursday Thoughts<\/a>, here is mine:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I like to finish a project on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/li>\n<li>I think it sets a good tone for the year.<\/li>\n<li>Of course, some years it is fruitless.<\/li>\n<li>Still, I do it.<\/li>\n<li>It has to be a small project.<\/li>\n<li>Last year it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/last-2010-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">bag<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Not the bag I thought it was, but a bag.<\/li>\n<li>We all know <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/really-finished-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\">how that turned out<\/a>. \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>The photo above is probably one of the worst photos I have taken in the right conditions &#8211; well, my normal conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Not sure what happened.<\/li>\n<li>Still I post it.<\/li>\n<li>I would take another photo, but the recipient changed his sheets (shock, horror!) and they are no longer available for your pristine viewing pleasure.<\/li>\n<li>Have a great day! You don&#8217;t need to call the looney bin.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A la Crafty Garden Mom&#8217;s Thursday Thoughts, here is mine: I like to finish a project on New Year&#8217;s Day. I think it sets a good tone for the year. Of course, some years it is fruitless. Still, I do it. It has to be a small project. Last year it was a bag. Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/first-finish\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Finish&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[401],"tags":[128,316,86,201],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-pillowcases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}