{"id":23331,"date":"2014-05-20T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23331"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:41:14","slug":"vintage-tuesday-a-g-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/vintage-tuesday-a-g-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tuesday: A.G. Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23333\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houseblock-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houseblock-sm-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"House Block quilt\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houseblock-sm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houseblock-sm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/houseblock-sm.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Block quilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the first quilt I made on my Janome 9000 in about 1995.<\/p>\n<p>I moved up to the 9k from a Singer 201 that I bought at a White Elephant sale for about $30 including the table. The Singer 201 got me started in quiltmaking, but I outgrew it after about 3 years. The one thing I really wanted to do was machine applique&#8217;. The Singer 201 did not have a zigzag stitch.<\/p>\n<p>I was so excited to do machine applique&#8217;. I drew out a picture that became the center and stitched it out. I didn&#8217;t know anything about stitch density. I used Mettler quilting thread for the stitches. and the satin stitch was really thick.<\/p>\n<p>I was really pleased with the center block when I made it. I can do much better now, but it really showed that a much better machine helped me take a huge leap forward in my quiltmaking. The new machine allowed me to spread my creative wings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first quilt I made on my Janome 9000 in about 1995. I moved up to the 9k from a Singer 201 that I bought at a White Elephant sale for about $30 including the table. The Singer 201 got me started in quiltmaking, but I outgrew it after about 3 years. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/vintage-tuesday-a-g-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage Tuesday: A.G. 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":[381],"tags":[252,211],"class_list":["post-23331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-project-quilt","tag-vintage-tuesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331","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=23331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}