{"id":670,"date":"2008-12-20T15:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-snowballs-are-flowering\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T21:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T04:04:24","slug":"the-snowballs-are-flowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-snowballs-are-flowering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snowballs are Flowering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxmR9rRXaI\/AAAAAAAAC6U\/dgeSG6Hfsjc\/s1600-h\/PICT3423sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 314px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SUxmR9rRXaI\/AAAAAAAAC6U\/dgeSG6Hfsjc\/s320\/PICT3423sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281708921798614434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am still working on the Flowering Snowballs (Cross Blocks). As you can see, I have taken the Child&#8217;s advice and added in some visual resting places for the last 10 blocks.<\/p>\n<p>As I have mentioned on numerous occasions, these are hand pieced. I intend to sew them together by machine. However, in the cutting process, they do not all turn out to have uniform edges. I have been wondering if they would come apart if I trimmed them with a square ruler and then sewed them all together?<\/p>\n<p>The knots I have made to hold the pieces securely would be trimmed off. Would it matter how quickly I sewed after trimming? The machine piecing would definitely hold all of the blocks together. More pondering&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am still working on the Flowering Snowballs (Cross Blocks). As you can see, I have taken the Child&#8217;s advice and added in some visual resting places for the last 10 blocks. As I have mentioned on numerous occasions, these are hand pieced. I intend to sew them together by machine. However, in the cutting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/the-snowballs-are-flowering\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Snowballs are Flowering&#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":[388],"tags":[170,22,332],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-flowering-snowball","tag-hand-piecing","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","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=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}