{"id":45514,"date":"2019-03-30T06:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=45514"},"modified":"2019-03-26T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:22:11","slug":"under-the-sea-pillow-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Sea Pillow FINISHED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_45526\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45526\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- front\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-1024x827.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-1553552432718362594724555674357-1200x969.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the Sea Pillow Finished- front<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yep. It&#8217;s true. I have finished the Under the Sea piece after many years of working on it. I can hardly believe it.<\/p>\n<p>I am so thrilled that I have one hand project that is finally done. Granted, I could have just said &#8220;this is done&#8221; and moved on, but projects speak to me and this one was very chatty. I finally feel like it is really and truly done &#8211; enough embroidery, enough embellishment, enough stitching.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_45529\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45529\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- back\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-768x587.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-1024x782.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535528637694756205277684378798-1200x917.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-45529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under the Sea Pillow Finished- back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As I have said, I started this piece in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/pamela-cqfa-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pamela Allen class in April of 2009<\/a>. I hope it was worth 10 years of work (not constant work).<\/p>\n<p>The London Portfolio fabric seems to fit the front pretty well and I am pleased with the black binding.<\/p>\n<p>This was not an easy project to finish and included a lot of ripping out, but like Beach Town and the Flower Garden, I am pleased with the style of working and the results. Pamela Allen is a design genius and if you want to learn to design quilts, she is a great teacher.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45514 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15535526886695866605239622265317-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535526886695866605239622265317-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- detail\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45528\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45528'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea Pillow Finished- detail\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-15535525917592320717214613251982-jpg\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/wp-15535525917592320717214613251982-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Under the Sea Pillow Finished- detail\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-45527\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-45527'>\n\t\t\t\tUnder the Sea Pillow Finished- detail\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep. It&#8217;s true. I have finished the Under the Sea piece after many years of working on it. I can hardly believe it. I am so thrilled that I have one hand project that is finally done. Granted, I could have just said &#8220;this is done&#8221; and moved on, but projects speak to me and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/under-the-sea-pillow-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Under the Sea Pillow FINISHED!&#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":[149,313,161,136,420],"class_list":["post-45514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-art-quilts","tag-embellishment","tag-embroidery","tag-pillows","tag-under-the-sea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514","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=45514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}