{"id":102,"date":"2010-05-06T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-05-06T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T02:07:00","slug":"strips-strings-and-leftovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/strips-strings-and-leftovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Strips, Strings, and Leftovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy playing with my bin of strips, strings, and bits again. I love making blocks from that jumble of fabric. This time, I have been making half log cabin blocks. These blocks are rather mindless and low stress. There is no matching of intersections or points, just fun sewing! Once I had a few blocks made, I tried out some layouts on the &#8220;design floor&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlPZaHHCI\/AAAAAAAAGD0\/Ntf7j8r2ygg\/s1600\/DSC_0328.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlPZaHHCI\/AAAAAAAAGD0\/Ntf7j8r2ygg\/s400\/DSC_0328.JPG\"><\/a> This layout was inspired by, &#8220;Mumbo Gumbo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlO4iNMWI\/AAAAAAAAGDs\/xnKt8E2Q69c\/s1600\/DSC_0329.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlO4iNMWI\/AAAAAAAAGDs\/xnKt8E2Q69c\/s400\/DSC_0329.JPG\"><\/a><linda><a href=\"http:\/\/catsnqlts2.blogspot.com\/\">Linda<\/a> thought this layout looked a little dimensional&#8211;like blocks that are overlapping one another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlOWQECFI\/AAAAAAAAGDk\/k3nhNVqal8M\/s1600\/DSC_0330.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/S-IlOWQECFI\/AAAAAAAAGDk\/k3nhNVqal8M\/s400\/DSC_0330.JPG\"><\/a> This is my favorite layout&#8211;on point in a chevron design.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about that bin of strips, strings, and leftovers&#8211;no matter how many blocks I make, the pile does not seem to go down at all! I swear these things multiply when you aren&#8217;t looking!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/linda>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been busy playing with my bin of strips, strings, and bits again. I love making blocks from that jumble of fabric. This time, I have been making half log cabin blocks. These blocks are rather mindless and low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/strips-strings-and-leftovers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,110,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scrap","category-strings","category-strips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}