{"id":67281,"date":"2025-07-24T07:07:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=67281"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:16:14","slug":"day-out-with-quilts-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/day-out-with-quilts-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Out with Quilts&#8230;Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie and I made the pilgrimage to drop off quilts with Colleen the other day.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-67281 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/old-town-top-complete\/20250524_172802_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250524_172802_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Old Town top complete\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-66645\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-66645'>\n\t\t\t\tOld Town top complete\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/chain-link-top-complete\/20250629_190101_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250629_190101_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Chain Link Top finished\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-66952\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-66952'>\n\t\t\t\tChain Link Top finished\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/triumphant-top-finished\/20250708_100345_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250708_100345_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Finished: Triumphant top\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-67082\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-67082'>\n\t\t\t\tFinished: Triumphant top\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/handbag-sampler-more-blocks\/20250720_141316_wm-sm\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250720_141316_wm-sm-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Handbag Sampler - all the blocks\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-67255\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-67255'>\n\t\t\t\tHandbag Sampler &#8211; all the blocks\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Four of my quilts and Julie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/highfibercontent.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/City%20Sampler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">City Sampler<\/a> are all in the capable hands of Colleen. I also left a small panel quilt of my Mom&#8217;s there. That was a mess. It had no backing or binding. Colleen had some perfect backing fabric and I will send her a binding in a few days.<\/p>\n<p>I learned from making the pilgrimage with Tim that I have to plan a lunch break. We stopped at Black Bear Diner because the area is a mecca of chain stores and restaurants. Fortunately, they have gluten free options, so I indulged in a BLT and ate the french fries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_67288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67288\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-67288\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Quilts, July 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250722_180204_wm-sm.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay Quilts, July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the way back, we stopped at Bay Quilts. They close at 3pm during the week! We only had about 15 minutes to shop, but we both found a few things. I like that shop. It is big and they have good fabric.<\/p>\n<p>The two background fabrics I purchased are from the same line as the fabric I used for the Triumphant background. I didn&#8217;t realize it until the clerk was cutting the fabric.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also finally indulged in that color set of fat quarters. I have been looking at it for a year at least. I need to find a good way to use it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie and I made the pilgrimage to drop off quilts with Colleen the other day. Four of my quilts and Julie&#8217;s City Sampler are all in the capable hands of Colleen. I also left a small panel quilt of my Mom&#8217;s there. That was a mess. It had no backing or binding. Colleen had some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/day-out-with-quilts-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day Out with Quilts&#8230;Again&#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":[99,326],"class_list":["post-67281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-longarm","tag-off-topic-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67281","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=67281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67290,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67281\/revisions\/67290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}