{"id":1650,"date":"2016-03-13T20:47:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T03:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2016-03-25T11:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T18:41:24","slug":"check-plus-flimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/check-plus-flimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Plus &#8211; Flimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016_March-13_Check-Plus_Flimsy_50.5-in-x-68.5-in.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1658\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016_March-13_Check-Plus_Flimsy_50.5-in-x-68.5-in-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"2016_March 13_Check Plus_Flimsy_50.5 in x 68.5 in\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016_March-13_Check-Plus_Flimsy_50.5-in-x-68.5-in-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016_March-13_Check-Plus_Flimsy_50.5-in-x-68.5-in.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>I am on two weeks vacation. \u00a0In the past few years we have taken a vacation in the winter and headed to the sunshine. \u00a0We won&#8217;t be doing that this year. \u00a0The Canadian dollar is worth $0.75497 against the US dollar today so we have made a decision to staycation at home this year. \u00a0If I am at home, I will have more time to spend in my studio! \u00a0Bonus!<\/p>\n<p>The first project I have worked on during this vacation is now finished to a flimsy. \u00a0 This quilt is called Check Plus and is from a quilt pattern by <a href=\"http:\/\/meadowmistdesigns.blogspot.ca\/2014\/10\/check-plus-in-quilty-magazine.html\">Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs that appeared in the Nov\/Dec 2014 issue of Quilty Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was a fun quilt to do. I used a stack of dotty fat quarters that I picked up at a previous year&#8217;s Creative Stitches Show. (Maybe two years ago?) I kept the pink fabric from the FQ stack out of the quilt to make this one a more gender neutral palette.<\/p>\n<p>This has now been added to the growing stack of &#8220;to be quilted&#8221; tops.<\/p>\n<p>Finished flimsy size: 50.5&#8243; x 68.5&#8243;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am on two weeks vacation. \u00a0In the past few years we have taken a vacation in the winter and headed to the sunshine. \u00a0We won&#8217;t be doing that this year. \u00a0The Canadian dollar is worth $0.75497 against the US &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2016\/03\/check-plus-flimsy\/\">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":[329,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-plus","category-flimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","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=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}