{"id":316,"date":"2007-09-23T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/hiatus-progress\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T00:30:57","slug":"hiatus-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/hiatus-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiatus Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that this brief interlude while the 9K is in the shop can be considered a Pineapple hiatus. I don&#8217;t want to take the blocks off the wall and put them away, because then it will be a year before I get back to it, so having a small break where I can work on different projects will be rejuvenating for my work on the Pineapple.<\/p>\n<p>Although I spent most of the day working yesterday, I did have time to make the baby blankets. I get a yard of flannel and hem the edges. On the 9K, I have a variety of decorative stitches and letters that I can use to make words. Between flannel baby blankets and gift bags I have tried nearly all of the stitches on my machine and found which ones I like for which type of project. Usually on baby blankets, I use the star pattern. I also use the letters to make words which say &#8220;For Baby Last Name&#8221; and &#8220;Made by My Name.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, with the 9K at the doctor, all of that is out the window. In using the Jem, I don&#8217;t have very many options in the decorative stitch department and I have no options for words. I made due and used the zigzag and whizzed through all 6 blankets. I still need to wrap, get cards and send. I don&#8217;t know if I will make bags for them, but we will see. It is a good way to spread the word about gift bags.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rvb5qn4m0LI\/AAAAAAAABBU\/JspudvDwZLI\/s1600-h\/PICT9052-500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113548937582006450\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/Rvb5qn4m0LI\/AAAAAAAABBU\/JspudvDwZLI\/s320\/PICT9052-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Above are the fabrics that I used. The two left hand fabrics will go to the baby due in October (person I want to impress), the two purple fabrics will go to the baby due in December (colleague\/fellow librarian\/friend), The two right hand fabrics will go to the second baby due in October (colleague\/fellow librarian\/friend).<\/p>\n<p>So, #1 on the list is complete.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><del>6 baby blankets: two colleagues and one person I want to impress are having babies: 2 each<\/del><\/li>\n<li>Binding for <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/relief\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon&#8217;s quilt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Binding for Serendipity Puzzle.<\/li>\n<li>Gift bags: I have lots of fabric for bags, and Christmas is coming.<\/li>\n<li>Cut out fabric for test blocks. I am going to start looking at new machines soon and I want to have some piecing in my own fabrics, which I can use to test the machines.<\/li>\n<li>Wash and press new fabric.<\/li>\n<li>Replenish Pineapple strips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I was also able to work on pressing some fabrics that have already been washed and cuttings strips for the Pineapple, but I am in no way near done with that and I doubt I will even be able to make a dent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that this brief interlude while the 9K is in the shop can be considered a Pineapple hiatus. I don&#8217;t want to take the blocks off the wall and put them away, because then it will be a year before I get back to it, so having a small break where I can work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/hiatus-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hiatus Progress&#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":[86,362],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-373","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}