{"id":228,"date":"2007-04-17T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/handing-out-medals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T16:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:03:29","slug":"handing-out-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/handing-out-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing Out Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a person needs a fabric fix, a person needs a fabric fix and here is no getting around it. I went on a small fabric buying binge this weekend in order to get my fix.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastthreadsonline.com\">Fast Threads<\/a> should be given a medal for the quickest service. I ordered fabric from them on Friday and here it was on my doorstep today. I found them through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltshops.com\">Quiltshops.com<\/a> search engine. I was looking for some new dots to add interest to the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/pineapples-are-pretty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pineapple<\/a>. That project makes me feel cheerful, but it certainly is a fabric hog. Not in amounts, but in variety.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHL1sIkgI\/AAAAAAAAAes\/FhihaQ40WEk\/s1600\/PICT8245-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054242950532862466\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHL1sIkgI\/AAAAAAAAAes\/FhihaQ40WEk\/s320\/PICT8245-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nOn Saturday, I stopped at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackcatquilts.com\/\">Black Cat<\/a> to get some rotary cutter blades and found 3 background fabrics for the Pineapple. The one on the right I already had, but think it will be useful in another dot quilt I have planned, so I bought some more.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHMFsIkhI\/AAAAAAAAAe0\/tx8zRyuOdxw\/s1600\/PICT8247-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054242954827829778\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHMFsIkhI\/AAAAAAAAAe0\/tx8zRyuOdxw\/s320\/PICT8247-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamssewright.net\"><br \/>\nSeams Sew Right<\/a> quilt shop, also on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltshops.com\">Quiltshops.com<\/a> search engine, is in medal contention as well. I only got two fabrics from them, but probably should have gotten more of the background dot. Nothing stopping me, I suppose. I love the purple with the white dots and will probably have enough to choke a horse eventually. I like their tag line: the Quilter&#8217;s Candy Store. The dots sure look like candy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHMFsIkiI\/AAAAAAAAAe8\/y4XrF4n-Efs\/s1600\/PICT8248-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054242954827829794\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogger\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/RiRHMFsIkiI\/AAAAAAAAAe8\/y4XrF4n-Efs\/s320\/PICT8248-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also bought some fabrics from eQuilter yesterday, but haven&#8217;t received them yet. One black on white I really liked is out of stock. Oh well. It sat too long on my wish list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person needs a fabric fix, a person needs a fabric fix and here is no getting around it. I went on a small fabric buying binge this weekend in order to get my fix. Fast Threads should be given a medal for the quickest service. I ordered fabric from them on Friday and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/handing-out-medals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handing Out Medals&#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":[310,315],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-color","tag-fabric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56760,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/56760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}