{"id":15992,"date":"2012-12-15T06:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2016-11-29T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T01:05:32","slug":"twitter-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/twitter-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of being involved in a very sweet gesture recently.<\/p>\n<p>You may know that the History Quilter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyquilter.com\/2012\/02\/unexpected-life-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost her dad<\/a> earlier this year. I am fortunate enough to still have my parents, so I can&#8217;t imagine her pain. Being a public figure like History Quilter generates a lot of empathy. That empathy generated a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historyquilter.com\/2012\/12\/an-unexpected-quilt-delivery.html\" target=\"_blank\">quilt for her<\/a> from Melissa\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sewbittersweetdesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sew Bittersweet Designs<\/a>, Shanna of <a href=\"http:\/\/fiberofallsorts.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiber of All Sorts<\/a> and Jenna of <a href=\"http:\/\/sewhappygeek.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sew Happy Geek<\/a>. Susan met all of these wonderful women via Twitter and her podcast.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15996\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15996\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15996\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15996 \" alt=\"Lower Left Corner\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2917sm-300x259.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower Left Corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15995\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15995\" style=\"width: 268px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15995\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15995\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15995\" alt=\"Upper Right\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2918sm-300x254.jpg\" width=\"268\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2918sm-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2918sm.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 85vw, 268px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upper Right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15993\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2920sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15993 \" title=\"Navy Star Variation\" alt=\"Navy Star Variation\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2920sm-300x237.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navy Star Variation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15994\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=15994\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15994\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-15994 \" alt=\"Lower Right\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2919sm-300x245.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2919sm-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/PICT2919sm.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 85vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lower Right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the strange quirks of the Internet world meeting the Real World, I met Melissa at a BAMQG meeting. She had the quilt and I offered to send it to Susan for her. Susan received it and loved it. How could she not?<\/p>\n<p>It is such a sweet gesture and I am pleased to be a part of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of being involved in a very sweet gesture recently. You may know that the History Quilter lost her dad earlier this year. I am fortunate enough to still have my parents, so I can&#8217;t imagine her pain. Being a public figure like History Quilter generates a lot of empathy. That empathy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/twitter-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter Power&#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":[316,330],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-401","tag-gifts","tag-other-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","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=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}