{"id":25,"date":"2012-02-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2012-02-12T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:00:00","slug":"got-stripes-finished-flimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/got-stripes-finished-flimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Stripes? &#8211; Finished Flimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y951w0GM40E\/TzhiSEoNBGI\/AAAAAAAAHQk\/LJTK9heOOkA\/s1600\/DSC_0088.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Y951w0GM40E\/TzhiSEoNBGI\/AAAAAAAAHQk\/LJTK9heOOkA\/s320\/DSC_0088.JPG\" width=\"212\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I finished &#8220;Got Stripes?&#8221; to the flimsy stage last night.\u00a0 It took most of yesterday to get the two borders on.\u00a0 It always amazes me how\u00a0long it takes to measure, cut, and attach borders to the perimeter of a large quilt.\u00a0 I usually underestimate the time I need for this task.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This one is technically queen size, but I think it would fit a king size bed too as I made the outer border wider than the pattern said.  I took the border fabric I had on hand and figured out how many pieces I needed, did the math, and made the border the corresponding width.  The only piece of fabric left was the piece that was trimmed off in the beginning when I was squaring up the fabric&#8211;every other last bit was used!  I love no leftovers!\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finished size:\u00a0\u00a0100.5&#8243; x\u00a0 117.5&#8243;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IN-SV9_sPrQ\/TzhibiSzMBI\/AAAAAAAAHQs\/EGZAkHtwv7M\/s1600\/DSC_0089.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-IN-SV9_sPrQ\/TzhibiSzMBI\/AAAAAAAAHQs\/EGZAkHtwv7M\/s320\/DSC_0089.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a Terry Atkinson design.\u00a0 The pattern\u00a0can be found in the book, &#8220;Time Out Quilts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJcQbU6N1s8\/TzhmeJWH9nI\/AAAAAAAAHQ8\/LspM_AXPh-A\/s1600\/414yCqGR-DL__SL500_AA300_.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-XJcQbU6N1s8\/TzhmeJWH9nI\/AAAAAAAAHQ8\/LspM_AXPh-A\/s1600\/414yCqGR-DL__SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NfD7qpRMtpQ\/TzhoUoTJqcI\/AAAAAAAAHRE\/rvfU2chQXBI\/s1600\/DSC_0091.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-NfD7qpRMtpQ\/TzhoUoTJqcI\/AAAAAAAAHRE\/rvfU2chQXBI\/s320\/DSC_0091.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>This one has been added to the growing, &#8220;to be quilted&#8221; pile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished &#8220;Got Stripes?&#8221; to the flimsy stage last night.\u00a0 It took most of yesterday to get the two borders on.\u00a0 It always amazes me how\u00a0long it takes to measure, cut, and attach borders to the perimeter of a large &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/got-stripes-finished-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":[14,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flimsy","category-got-stripes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}