{"id":48328,"date":"2020-01-21T07:18:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=48328"},"modified":"2020-01-18T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T20:06:16","slug":"quilty-birthday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/quilty-birthday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilty Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got to spend the day with my mom and my husband yesterday. My office was closed, but I had some things to do and I don&#8217;t get paid if I don&#8217;t work, so I worked early in the day &#8211; before Mom arrived &#8211; and then took the rest of the day off.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I received some Quilty gifts! Yay!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48334\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48334\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Gifts 2020\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-1024x800.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-1536x1200.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-2048x1600.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/20200117_173218_wm-1200x937.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gifts 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My nephew (really his mom who is a darling) gave me some quilty gifts off my wish list.<\/p>\n<p>I already <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/book-review-string-frenzy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reviewed String Frenzy<\/a> from a library copy, but now I can make the Straits of Mackinac quilt without worry about the loan expiring.<\/p>\n<p>I did a bit of machine quilting last year and since I do mostly straight line quilting, I wanted to try the foot I asked for. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2LRaD8C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ultimate Quilt &amp; Stitch Presser foot<\/a>* allows the quilter to follow lines that are farther apart than the presser foot. I don&#8217;t have anything to quilt at the moment, but I could finish quilting the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/tbt-early-tarts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tarts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*I use affiliate links and may be paid for your purchase of an item you click on. There is no additional cost to you for clicking or purchasing items I recommend. I appreciate your clicks and purchases as it helps support this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to spend the day with my mom and my husband yesterday. My office was closed, but I had some things to do and I don&#8217;t get paid if I don&#8217;t work, so I worked early in the day &#8211; before Mom arrived &#8211; and then took the rest of the day off. Yes, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/quilty-birthday-2\/\" 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":[486],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-48328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48328","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=48328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}