{"id":21468,"date":"2014-01-02T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T13:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=21468"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:41:07","slug":"first-finish-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/first-finish-of-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"First Finish of 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21473\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4443sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21473\" alt=\"Tea towel pillow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4443sm-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4443sm-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4443sm.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea towel pillow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few years ago, TFQ gave me a tea towel which I thought was too pretty to cover with kitchen yuck. i really liked the motifs, which echo,in shape, if not color, the <a title=\"Tarts Milestone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/tarts-milestone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tarts Come to Tea<\/a>. It hung over the door of the fabric closet for quite awhile. The door of the fabric closet is a hybrid inspiration wall and I-know-what-I-want-to-do-with-this-but-haven&#8217;t-gotten-to-it space. I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what I wanted to do with the tea towel, but one day it came to me that I could fold it over and make a pillow.<\/p>\n<p>I sewed it as described except for a space to stuff it last week. It was a quick trip around the edge with white thread. Yesterday I stuffed it with a combination of shards and tiny scraps and leftover batting. Then, I sewed it together on the machine.Voila! back pillow.<\/p>\n<p>I really like finishing something on New Year&#8217;s Day as I like to think it sets the tone for the year. We will see.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4445sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Tea towel pillow - back\" alt=\"Tea towel pillow - back\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/PICT4445sm-300x207.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tea towel pillow &#8211; back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, TFQ gave me a tea towel which I thought was too pretty to cover with kitchen yuck. i really liked the motifs, which echo,in shape, if not color, the Tarts Come to Tea. It hung over the door of the fabric closet for quite awhile. The door of the fabric closet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/first-finish-of-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First Finish of 2014&#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_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[381],"tags":[128,86,136],"class_list":["post-21468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-completed-project","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-pillows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468","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=21468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}