{"id":66637,"date":"2025-05-25T07:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T14:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66637"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:08:28","slug":"old-town-checkerboard-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/old-town-checkerboard-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Town Checkerboard Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66638\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520_203244_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66638\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520_203244_wm-sm-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town with checkerboard border\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520_203244_wm-sm-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520_203244_wm-sm-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520_203244_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 85vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town with checkerboard border<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DH was out of town all week with the Native Sons at Grand Parlor. I didn&#8217;t go as I had to work and hold down the fort at home. Instead of cooking dinner (hooray for microwaves!) I sewed and the Old Town second border is now complete.<\/p>\n<p>I keep looking at this piece and marveling at how different it looks with borders. OMG! So much better. Who knew a border could do so much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DH was out of town all week with the Native Sons at Grand Parlor. I didn&#8217;t go as I had to work and hold down the fort at home. Instead of cooking dinner (hooray for microwaves!) I sewed and the Old Town second border is now complete. I keep looking at this piece and marveling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/old-town-checkerboard-complete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old Town Checkerboard Complete&#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":[543,270,545,331],"class_list":["post-66637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-old-town-mystery-quilt","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\/66637","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=66637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66639,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66637\/revisions\/66639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}