{"id":4618,"date":"2010-03-04T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2021-06-16T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T04:46:13","slug":"completed-pencil-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/completed-pencil-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Completed Pencil Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned before<\/a>, I find pencil rolls to be a pretty quick project. I have have the hang of them now and they put themselves together, pretty much, as long as I am paying attention.<\/p>\n

\"Deirdre's<\/a>
Deirdre’s Pencil Roll closed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

or so I thought.<\/p>\n

Not so with this beauty. Trying to be the good little green girl, I used a beautiful teal, feather design FabMo fabric for the outside. I talked about these fabrics before<\/a>. That fabric became the bane of my existence.<\/p>\n

\"Deirdre's<\/a>
Deirdre’s Pencil Roll half open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would not stay put. I tried to sew all of the pieces (back, front, flannel, pocket) together, like the directions say, and that upholstery fabric wouldn’t cooperate.  It was very slidey for some reason and I would end up with an inch of flannel on the top and an inch of upholstery fabric on the bottom. I ripped the whole thing out three times. It was very frustrating.<\/p>\n

\"Deirdre's<\/a>
Deirdre’s Pencil Roll open<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you don’t look too closely the piece turned out ok. That FabMo<\/a> fabric looks really good, but I will pay more attention to my how my selections feel next time. This is a gift and I hope the recipient likes it. I can’t, however, send it off until I show it at CQFA<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned before, I find pencil rolls to be a pretty quick project. I have have the hang of them now and they put themselves together, pretty much, as long as I am paying attention. or so I thought. Not so with this beauty. Trying to be the good little green girl, I used … Continue reading “Completed Pencil Roll”<\/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":[390],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-pencil-roll"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","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=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53341,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/53341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}