{"id":130,"date":"2006-09-24T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/hands-down\/"},"modified":"2018-07-03T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T03:23:47","slug":"hands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/hands-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, I made the hand today – mostly. Here is a progression of pictures.
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\nI did the drawing of my hand before I thought of the wrist. Something caught my eye and made me think of the glove edging, so I added it after I had already cut the Tear-Away stabilizer.
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Pieced first side ready for applique’.
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When I saw the challenge, I could only think of Hearts in Hands.
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Preparing the second side. I wasn’t sure how to do it, but sort of figured it out as I went along.
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I decided to put a spiral on the back. It seems to be a powerful sign for me. This side is evolving into the front. I used some glue to keep the spiral down and flat before stitching.<\/p>\n

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Both pieces ready for quilting.<\/p>\n

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First bit of quilting. I had to rip it out, because the Libby magic has worn off and the tension was terrible. I wanted to use Glitter, but couldn’t get it to work no matter what I did. I did not have a 90\/14 topstitch needle, which is what Libby recommends, so that may have been the problem.<\/p>\n

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Quilted and ready for binding. I plan to do a blue satin stitch around the edge tomorrow. I hope I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As promised, I made the hand today – mostly. Here is a progression of pictures. Back of first side: I did the drawing of my hand before I thought of the wrist. Something caught my eye and made me think of the glove edging, so I added it after I had already cut the Tear-Away … Continue reading “Hands Down”<\/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":[369],"tags":[149,314],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-369","tag-art-quilts","tag-exhibits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","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=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}