{"id":419,"date":"2008-02-17T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/mind-sorbet\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:46:07","slug":"mind-sorbet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/mind-sorbet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Sorbet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chocolate Box quilt, which I talked about in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/quiltmaking-by-the-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> about the retreat is what is discussed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judymartin.com\">Judy Martin<\/a>&#8216;s February 2008 newsletter. Kristin, one of her readers writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I agree that there is nothing wrong with fast quilts. In fact, in the past after completing a challenging project, I would often use a fast and easy quilt as a &#8220;mind sorbet&#8221; to cleanse the mind before beginning the next project. They are nice for showcasing big or odd prints, or for picnic quilts or for kid quilts for gifts. I do think though, if we are not challenging ourselves and not enjoying the process, we are missing something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chocolate Box is mind sorbet. I felt thick and full after working for so long on the Pineapple. I needed something to cleanse the palette and the Chocolate Box did it.That is such a great description and I hope I will be able to add it to my lexicon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chocolate Box quilt, which I talked about in the post about the retreat is what is discussed in Judy Martin&#8216;s February 2008 newsletter. Kristin, one of her readers writes: &#8220;I agree that there is nothing wrong with fast quilts. In fact, in the past after completing a challenging project, I would often use a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/mind-sorbet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mind Sorbet&#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":[388],"tags":[213,214,326],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-chocolate-box","tag-mind-sorbet","tag-off-topic-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}