{"id":44992,"date":"2019-02-09T08:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=44992"},"modified":"2019-02-07T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T21:08:51","slug":"quilty-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/quilty-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilty Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44991\" title=\"2019 Birthday Gifts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937.jpg\" alt=\"2019 Birthday Gifts\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937.jpg 3000w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15489599530488611872607236374937-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 Birthday Gifts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>No, my birthday is not in February, but I didn&#8217;t have a chance to show off my gifts until now. I am <em><strong>not<\/strong><\/em> trying to make anyone jealous.<\/p>\n<p>It was a pretty big quilty birthday, which is not always the case. I got a new cutting mat. I have smaller cutting mats that go with me when I travel or participate in Sew Day. The mat I use in my workroom, however, is the one I got when I started making quilts more than 30 years ago! It was time for an upgrade and I am using and loving the new one. It does make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>I received some new Tula dots. I&#8217;ll have to figure out something fabulous to make with them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44892\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Charm square project tote\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125-1024x631.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wp-15481047616524043020651115651125-1200x739.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charm square project tote<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I also got a number of new project totes, which is great! I really like putting my projects in totes and keeping everything together. This little tote (right) fits charm squares. Not sure how I will use it, but will figure something out.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried everything out, but am slowly working my way through all the new stuff. I am so fortunate to have such great friends. It was so nice get things related to my passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, my birthday is not in February, but I didn&#8217;t have a chance to show off my gifts until now. I am not trying to make anyone jealous. It was a pretty big quilty birthday, which is not always the case. I got a new cutting mat. I have smaller cutting mats that go with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/quilty-birthday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quilty Birthday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[477],"tags":[315,316,341,345],"class_list":["post-44992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-fabric","tag-gifts","tag-supplies","tag-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}