{"id":46347,"date":"2019-06-09T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T16:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=46347"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:49:15","slug":"sewing-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/sewing-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586377874235576286815097327166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586377874235576286815097327166-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Kenmore\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586377874235576286815097327166-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586377874235576286815097327166.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenmore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sewing surrounded me as a child. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mentioned the women in my life<\/a> being adept and prolific needlewomen. what I didn&#8217;t mention is that my dad was just as adept. I distinctly remember our house being filled with goosedown feathers as he and my aunt sewed sleeping bags, parkas, booties for a winter backpacking trip. Recently he pulled out the sewing machine on which I learned to sew and sewed up some curtains for his new guest room.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46150\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586379417955943459173008002467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586379417955943459173008002467-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"Dad sewing\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586379417955943459173008002467-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/wp-15586379417955943459173008002467.jpg 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dad sewing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t have the best ergonomics, but he did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea where he got the quilt. He has never mentioned it to me and I have never seen it before. I should say that I didn&#8217;t make it. It looks pretty, though.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sewing surrounded me as a child. I mentioned the women in my life being adept and prolific needlewomen. what I didn&#8217;t mention is that my dad was just as adept. I distinctly remember our house being filled with goosedown feathers as he and my aunt sewed sleeping bags, parkas, booties for a winter backpacking trip. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/sewing-heritage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sewing Heritage&#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":[317],"class_list":["post-46347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46347","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=46347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}