{"id":66562,"date":"2025-05-13T07:22:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66562"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:34:23","slug":"two-birds-one-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/two-birds-one-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Birds One Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66569\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66569\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Pencil role background\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-1024x482.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-1536x723.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm-1200x565.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250505_110744_wm-sm.jpg 1703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pencil role background<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I decided that making a pencil roll would fit in with the upcoming Organizer swap and would be good to enter into the fair. I had nothing to enter and needed to make something. Time grew short and my free time became a precious commodity, so here we are.<\/p>\n<p>I spent some of last weekend sewing the strips together after cutting them out at <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/sew-day-report-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sew Day<\/a>. It didn&#8217;t all go as smoothly as I would have liked, but it has been about <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/gift-post-2-julies-pencil-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6 years since I made one<\/a> of these so some bumps in the path are to be expected. I am thinking black and white for the other pieces. Dots and stripes.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to finish this sometime this week so I can hand it in at the meeting next weekend to be taken to the Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that making a pencil roll would fit in with the upcoming Organizer swap and would be good to enter into the fair. I had nothing to enter and needed to make something. Time grew short and my free time became a precious commodity, so here we are. I spent some of last weekend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/two-birds-one-stone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two Birds One Stone&#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":[538],"tags":[137,314,97,463,59],"class_list":["post-66562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bamqg","tag-exhibits","tag-pencil-roll","tag-san-mateo-county-fair","tag-swaps"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66562","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=66562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66571,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66562\/revisions\/66571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}