{"id":49299,"date":"2020-05-04T07:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=49299"},"modified":"2020-05-04T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T18:06:08","slug":"starting-a-windmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/starting-a-windmill\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Another Windmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49298\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-49298 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Windmill blades + background\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wp-1587918014918-1200x1600.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windmill blades + background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you know from a <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/cool-windmill-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous post<\/a>, I had about a million leftover Windmill blades. I put them back in the box after finishing both Windmill quilts, not sure what I would do with them. Apparently. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/finished-cool-windmill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mom was broadly hinting that she wanted Warm Windmill.<\/a> Unfortunately, she was too subtle and I had already promised it to someone else. Finally, she just asked me straight out to make her one. I agreed, but couldn&#8217;t start it until I <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/finishing-frolic-top\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">finished Frolic<\/a>! As I said before, I have known she wanted one for awhile and it was in my plan to make it for her. I am pleased to make something for her as she is such a good Mom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_49344\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49344\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49344\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-269x300.jpg\" alt=\"Testing the Windmill Background\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-920x1024.jpg 920w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-768x855.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-1380x1536.jpg 1380w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-1839x2048.jpg 1839w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/20200426_090758_wm-1200x1336.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 85vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Testing the Windmill Background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After finishing Frolic!, I needed an easy project. There are other quilts I need to make but these Windmills are&nbsp; quick and easy and relatively mindless, but not boring. Since Mom wants a Windmill quilt, this is the one to go under the needle next. It will be my palate cleanser before I start on something else. I am already thinking about what is next. I need to reel those thoughts in and focus on making this quilt fabulous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you know from a previous post, I had about a million leftover Windmill blades. I put them back in the box after finishing both Windmill quilts, not sure what I would do with them. Apparently. Mom was broadly hinting that she wanted Warm Windmill. Unfortunately, she was too subtle and I had already promised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/starting-a-windmill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting Another Windmill&#8221;<\/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_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":[254],"class_list":["post-49299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-486","tag-windmill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299","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=49299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}