{"id":70540,"date":"2026-04-21T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=70540"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T20:00:45","slug":"ufo-challenge-serendipity-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/ufo-challenge-serendipity-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO Challenge: Serendipity Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started Serendipity Lady<\/a> in 2014. I haven’t worked on her since a CQFA Retreat in 2019<\/a>. I also haven’t written much about it. <\/p>\n

\"Serendipity<\/a>
Serendipity Lady, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She is the next UFO Challenge piece on which I have to work. The first step was getting her out of the closet. I didn’t have to find her as she was hanging flat against the back wall of the Fabric Closet<\/a>. So, the first step was achieved pretty easily.<\/p>\n

\"Serendipity<\/a>
Serendipity Lady, 2026 -reverse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next step was to rip off the paper that I used to stabilize the piece for the applique’. I was able to accomplish this task over the course of a couple of nights in front of the TV.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what I used, but it was two layers and it felt like drawing paper. Some of it under the actual satin stitching was impossible to remove. This will be a wall hanging, so it doesn’t matter.<\/p>\n

My next step is to quilt the piece. <\/p>\n

Shock! Horror! I know. I have a plan and since it is small, I think I will be able to do it. I had planned to frame this piece, but I don’t know if I will do that or not at this point. One thing at a time. <\/p>\n

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I started Serendipity Lady in 2014. I haven’t worked on her since a CQFA Retreat in 2019. I also haven’t written much about it.  She is the next UFO Challenge piece on which I have to work. The first step was getting her out of the closet. I didn’t have to find her as she … Continue reading “UFO Challenge: Serendipity Lady”<\/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":[558],"tags":[290,362],"class_list":["post-70540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-serendipity-lady","tag-works-in-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540","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=70540"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70584,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70540\/revisions\/70584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}