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<\/a>Julie<\/a> sent me this great journal. It is a small square journal with a combination of blank handmade paper and graph paper. I already did one page of drawings and decorated the title page.<\/p>\nQuilting for Christmas doesn’t mean things that I made for Christmas, though it may mean that sometime in the future. It means gifts that I received for Christmas. Julie sent me this great journal. It is a small square journal with a combination of blank handmade paper and graph paper. I already did one page … Continue reading “Quilting for Christmas”<\/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":[8,316],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-christmas","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SVfxBMqRV2I\/AAAAAAAAC78\/n7GF125eLwU\/s320\/ATT00923.jpg\")
<\/a>This was inspired by the pattern on The Child’s Christmas stocking.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SVfo6GadyuI\/AAAAAAAAC7s\/mg9F6ns-KjM\/s320\/PICT3600sm.jpg\")
<\/a>Paul sent me the Civil war quilt<\/a> book and Julie also came through with the Ruth McDowell<\/a> and Katie Pasquini Masopust<\/a> design books. I guess I had better start working on my design principles.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SVf6RVOzo4I\/AAAAAAAAC8E\/uqNNzvcZKmg\/s320\/theQuiltBook.jpg\")
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I also received The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form<\/a>. One of the things it has are ads of quilts from the 30s, which I really like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"