{"id":30429,"date":"2015-12-29T05:57:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=30429"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:29:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:29:20","slug":"gift-post-4-fish-pillowcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/gift-post-4-fish-pillowcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Gift Post #4: Fish Pillowcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad is getting ready to retire soon. He plans on driving around the country pulling a trailer to visit his friends and fish. He loves to fish. He doesn&#8217;t want to acquire stuff, so pillowcases are something he can use on his travels and will be theme appropriate.\u00a0 I have been, since he told me of his plans, trying to get him gifts that are either use-up-able, useful for a trip or he can use to pack.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30479\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/dscn0779sm\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30479\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-30479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0779sm-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Pillowcases\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0779sm-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0779sm-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN0779sm.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fish Pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had forgotten about my well laid plans. When I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/wp-1450731562074.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\">washed some fabric<\/a> last weekend, I found the fish fabric I had bought a few months ago to make my dad pillowcases for Christmas. Deadlines were getting short and I knew I would have to be quick, so, after finishing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/gift-post-3-sew-together-bag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sew Together Bag<\/a>, I got down to pillowcase business.<\/p>\n<p>By now I have made so many pillowcases that they went together quickly. the biggest problem is picking out cuff fabric and I was able to find and use the last bit of yellow Reflections fabric for the cuffs. I think it adds a bit of cheerfulness to otherwise drab fabric.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad is getting ready to retire soon. He plans on driving around the country pulling a trailer to visit his friends and fish. He loves to fish. He doesn&#8217;t want to acquire stuff, so pillowcases are something he can use on his travels and will be theme appropriate.\u00a0 I have been, since he told &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/gift-post-4-fish-pillowcases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Post #4: Fish Pillowcases&#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":[379],"tags":[316,201],"class_list":["post-30429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-gifts","tag-pillowcases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30429","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=30429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}