{"id":71301,"date":"2026-06-19T07:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=71301"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:13:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:13:43","slug":"finished-old-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/finished-old-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished: Old Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71269\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71269\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133646_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71269\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133646_wm-sm-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town detail with ribbon\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133646_wm-sm-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133646_wm-sm.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 85vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town detail with ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I finished Old Town a few months ago, but never posted about it. I think my quilt holders have been busy or out of town. <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/another-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After winning Second place<\/a> at the Fair, I realized it and knew I needed to get it done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71274\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71274\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71274\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town with Ribbon\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm-768x747.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133636_wm-sm.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71274\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town with Ribbon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Old Town is finished! Yay! LOL!<\/p>\n<p>Old Town is the 2024 Bonnie Hunter Mystery Quilt. I played along and sewed many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/retreat-progress-on-old-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocks together at the BAM Retreat<\/a>, then finished it up at home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71275\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71275\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133642_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71275\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133642_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Old Town detail \" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133642_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_133642_wm-sm.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Old Town detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sewlittletimequilting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colleen<\/a> quilted it for me and here we are. I was really pleased to get second place since the category in which I entered it (quilted by another) is packed. This was a much easier quilt to quilt than <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/finished-patchwork-palooza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patchwork Palooza<\/a> since once I decided how to quilt a block, I just had Colleen quilt all the blocks the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished Old Town a few months ago, but never posted about it. I think my quilt holders have been busy or out of town. After winning Second place at the Fair, I realized it and knew I needed to get it done. Old Town is finished! Yay! LOL! Old Town is the 2024 Bonnie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/finished-old-town\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finished: Old Town&#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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[558],"tags":[543,128,270,545,331,353,252],"class_list":["post-71301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-558","tag-bonnie-hunter-mystery-quilt","tag-completed-project","tag-mystery-quilt","tag-old-town-mystery-quilt","tag-piecing","tag-process","tag-project-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71301","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=71301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71303,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71301\/revisions\/71303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}