{"id":7151,"date":"2010-11-28T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2016-05-18T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:11:20","slug":"pillowcase-party-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/pillowcase-party-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillowcase Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am really sad that the weekend is over. I really could use another day or two off.<\/p>\n<p>There was lots of cooking and baking and visiting and guests. We also went and saw a movie, had 6 boys over, destroyed and fixed our network (sort of) and talked to Grama on the phone. It was a busy weekend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PICT8209sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7152\" title=\"November Pillowcases\" src=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PICT8209sm-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"November Pillowcases\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PICT8209sm-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PICT8209sm-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/PICT8209sm.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">November Pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I had hoped to make lots and lots of things. In reality I was only able to finish three pillowcases. For some reason, I couldn&#8217;t put one of these together without ripping out significant portions. I had problems with all of them. I have to admit that I just took the ripping in stride and dealt with it.<\/p>\n<p>I have three more pillowcase burritos pinned and ready to sew, but haven&#8217;t done it yet. My nephew came over and he started a pillowcase also. He has to sew the front and do the French seam and then he will be done.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Man gave the <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/pillowcase-finished\/\" target=\"_blank\">pillowcase he made<\/a> to his friend who lost everything in the <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-09-10\/news\/23996646_1_gas-line-explosion-wind-whipped-blaze-smoke-inhalation\" target=\"_blank\">San Bruno fire<\/a>. He was able to, finally, make the gift this weekend. The friend&#8217;s mom almost started to cry. I was glad we could do something small for them.<\/p>\n<p>So, it was a big pillowcase weekend. What did you make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really sad that the weekend is over. I really could use another day or two off. There was lots of cooking and baking and visiting and guests. We also went and saw a movie, had 6 boys over, destroyed and fixed our network (sort of) and talked to Grama on the phone. It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/pillowcase-party-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pillowcase Party&#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_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":[390],"tags":[86,201],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-pillowcases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}