{"id":47214,"date":"2019-09-15T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T13:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=47214"},"modified":"2019-09-11T19:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T02:01:49","slug":"sil-friendship-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/sil-friendship-star\/","title":{"rendered":"SIL Friendship Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47152\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47152\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"SIL #2 Friendship Star\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm-768x844.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm-1200x1319.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190903_172212_wm.jpg 1917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 85vw, 273px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SIL #2 Friendship Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We did a fun activity at Craft Night the other night. We helped SIL #2 rearrange her HSTs to make sort of a gradation in color for her quilt.<\/p>\n<p>SIL is making a quilt for a former work colleague who is having a baby (well, his wife is). Two of us went over to SIL&#8217;s house for Craft Night and she asked us to help rearrange the HSTs. I have done it a million times, but our other member has never done it. She mostly crochets and is getting into knitting. She was great and had a good eye.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was fun to work on someone else&#8217;s project. The photo above isn&#8217;t even the final version. I thought it was, but we kept rearranging. At one point we couldn&#8217;t find a center we liked for one of the blues, so we rummaged through SIL&#8217;s scraps (her scraps are tiny!) and found a piece of fabric we liked. Then, we made her rummage through her yardage so she could cut a piece that was perfect. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I am not a huge fan of Friendship Stars, but these look really good. I like the small size and the scrappiness. I think Friendship Stars are better small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did a fun activity at Craft Night the other night. We helped SIL #2 rearrange her HSTs to make sort of a gradation in color for her quilt. SIL is making a quilt for a former work colleague who is having a baby (well, his wife is). Two of us went over to SIL&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/sil-friendship-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SIL Friendship Star&#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":[330,331],"class_list":["post-47214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-477","tag-other-artists","tag-piecing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47214","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=47214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}