{"id":13063,"date":"2012-04-24T06:04:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=13063"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:30:06","slug":"flowering-snowball-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/flowering-snowball-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Snowball Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13064\" style=\"width: 289px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PICT1569sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13064\" title=\"Flowering Snowball Corner\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PICT1569sm-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flowering Snowball Corner\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PICT1569sm-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PICT1569sm-989x1024.jpg 989w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PICT1569sm.jpg 996w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 85vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowering Snowball Corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am progressing well on the Flowering Snowball. I seem to be able to sew about a block a night. These are hand pieced, which is why they take so long.<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to decide how to put the blocks together &#8211; by machine or by hand. I am thinking that I will put them together by hand and then go over them by machine. I am hemming and hawing because the hand stitching isn&#8217;t as precise in terms of seam allowance, so I have to sew on a line rather than lining up the seam allowance. I&#8217;ll try it out and see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleased with the progression and glad I took it up again. I am really liking the way the side and corner blocks look. Another good example of self bordering success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am progressing well on the Flowering Snowball. I seem to be able to sew about a block a night. These are hand pieced, which is why they take so long. I am trying to decide how to put the blocks together &#8211; by machine or by hand. I am thinking that I will put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/flowering-snowball-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowering Snowball Update&#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":[170,252],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-flowering-snowball","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","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=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}