{"id":211,"date":"2007-03-26T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/a-monkey-finally-off-my-back\/"},"modified":"2018-10-14T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T23:42:16","slug":"a-monkey-finally-off-my-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/a-monkey-finally-off-my-back\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monkey Finally Off My Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I got to my workroom this morning the back of the Nosegay<\/span> was glaring at me and I could only sigh. I didn’t want to work on it. I had, somewhere in the back of my mind, wished that it would just be done. I thought about taking out Sharon’s quilt blocks and just ignoring the back of the Nosegay<\/span>. It seemed too big, too much, too old, too depressing. I felt like I just couldn’t do it. Still, I knew that if I didn’t just do it, it would glare at me forever. Since the thing has been hanging around since 1998 and I wanted it done in my lifetime, I decided to just do a couple of rows. After all, if I did a couple of rows every week, it would eventually get done. <\/p>\n

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I arranged some 1930s scraps that were laying on my cutting table into a largish block and sewed them together. That kind of warmed me up and I sewed on a row of the blue and a row of the 1930s fabric and laid it out. I found that I had sewed more than half! Halfway done! I couldn’t believe it. How did that happen? That spurred me on. \"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046048351804005874\"<\/a>
I sewed entire FQ pieces into long rows and sewed them to the back. Each strip took about 2.75 yards of fabric. It took me about 3-4 hours, but I finished the entire back. The back is done. Whew!<\/p>\n

I had been wondering if I shouldn’t just take Thoughts on Dots<\/span> and Serendipity Puzzle<\/span> to the quilter and bring the Nosegay<\/span> later. Now I don’t have to. I will call the quilter and see if I can bring the quilts over, then I will be free of them for a time.<\/p>\n

I am so thrilled!<\/p>\n

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I didn’t get through as much of the 1930s fabric as I had hoped, but I only have about 1\/2 a bin left. I think I may put the fabrics with each color family rather than segregating them. <\/p>\n

I have to say that the colors depress me a little bit with their muted tones and sweet little designs and I am tempted to just send them off to someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I got to my workroom this morning the back of the Nosegay was glaring at me and I could only sigh. I didn’t want to work on it. I had, somewhere in the back of my mind, wished that it would just be done. I thought about taking out Sharon’s quilt blocks and just … Continue reading “A Monkey Finally Off My Back”<\/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":[373],"tags":[258,331,252,362],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-nosegay","tag-piecing","tag-project-quilt","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","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=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}