{"id":24434,"date":"2014-08-16T05:54:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:13:07","slug":"receiving-blankets-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/receiving-blankets-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Receiving Blankets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24438\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5169sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24438\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5169sm-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"Receiving Blankets\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5169sm-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5169sm.jpg 913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Receiving Blankets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have a new baby niece named Lauren Elizabeth. I hope she likes pink because I have a lot of pink ideas. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>My mom is also thrilled to have another grandbaby. My Young Man is leaving for college too soon so Lauren will be a good distraction for her.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend I made receiving blankets, my gift of choice for newborns.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the pink and turquoise tone-on-tone at Always Quilting a month or so ago. I thought I would find some other flannels to go with them. As I perused the wares at Hawthorne Threads, I saw the Pretty Potent prints in flannel and that large dot. Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>While I was hemming the edges I listened to an interview with Anna Maria Horner on Modern Sewciety (Episode 37, I think) where she talks about her inspiration for Pretty Potent. I was thrilled to know her inspiration for the fabric with which I was working.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24451\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5174sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24451 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5174sm-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Receiving Blankets in Blue\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5174sm-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5174sm-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PICT5174sm.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Receiving Blankets in Blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I really like the Coneflower (Echinacea) print. I think it is a little hard to use in quilts, but it is perfect for this receiving blanket.<\/p>\n<p>I have the card written and just need to wrap the gift and send it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new baby niece named Lauren Elizabeth. I hope she likes pink because I have a lot of pink ideas. \ud83d\ude09 My mom is also thrilled to have another grandbaby. My Young Man is leaving for college too soon so Lauren will be a good distraction for her. Last weekend I made receiving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/receiving-blankets-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Receiving Blankets&#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":[316,86],"class_list":["post-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434","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=24434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}