{"id":214,"date":"2007-04-02T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/relief\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:27:56","slug":"relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief (Sharon&#8217;s Quilt)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I feel some relief. I have finished the top and back to Sharon&#8217;s quilt and it is ready to go to the quilter. As I mentioned, I didn&#8217;t feel a sense of euphoria or relief after finishing the Nosegay, but I do feel some of that relief now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-Nor_fUI\/AAAAAAAAAag\/w7kBcAx0fNk\/s1600\/PICT8184.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048673955007659330\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-Nor_fUI\/AAAAAAAAAag\/w7kBcAx0fNk\/s320\/PICT8184.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nTop: with the border on, it is a little too big for my design wall (what else is new with my work these days?)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-Oor_fXI\/AAAAAAAAAa4\/bCI3WA3wQcE\/s1600\/PICT8187.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048673972187528562\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-Oor_fXI\/AAAAAAAAAa4\/bCI3WA3wQcE\/s320\/PICT8187.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nDetail of front: this is the label. There was one last pink bordered square that I needed to make the piece complete, so I turned it into a label\/wish for happiness for the happy couple.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-OIr_fVI\/AAAAAAAAAao\/KTathqiipf0\/s1600\/PICT8185.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048673963597593938\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-OIr_fVI\/AAAAAAAAAao\/KTathqiipf0\/s320\/PICT8185.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nBack<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-OYr_fWI\/AAAAAAAAAaw\/EGuwyEIdpgY\/s1600\/PICT8186.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048673967892561250\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-OYr_fWI\/AAAAAAAAAaw\/EGuwyEIdpgY\/s320\/PICT8186.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nDetail of back. The pink is a map of Paris and the white and black border has French words on it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-O4r_fYI\/AAAAAAAAAbA\/wejPkqQIh0o\/s1600\/PICT8188.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048673976482495874\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RhB-O4r_fYI\/AAAAAAAAAbA\/wejPkqQIh0o\/s320\/PICT8188.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nBlurry detail of a batik fabric that I used for the border, then decided I really liked. If you have any, I want more. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I looked at my <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/as-the-ufos-turn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFO list<\/a> and it looks like most of the large outstanding projects are out of the way, except the Spiderweb, which is probably next on the list. There are a number of smaller projects, which are more arty that I will have to get back to eventually.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the design wall is blessedly empty. Now I feel like I have some brain space and can work on something I don&#8217;t feel is hanging over my head. I guess I need to try to finish projects before they get so old that they start shouting at me. I will put the pineapple blocks and the Cross Blocks back up and see what happens with a new project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, I feel some relief. I have finished the top and back to Sharon&#8217;s quilt and it is ready to go to the quilter. As I mentioned, I didn&#8217;t feel a sense of euphoria or relief after finishing the Nosegay, but I do feel some of that relief now. Top: with the border on, it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/relief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Relief (Sharon&#8217;s Quilt)&#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":[373],"tags":[316,331,332],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-gifts","tag-piecing","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56785,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/56785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}