{"id":269,"date":"2008-05-12T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=269"},"modified":"2008-05-12T02:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T02:59:00","slug":"which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Came First&#8230;.the Chicken or the Egg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/SCkE7jpoaBI\/AAAAAAAAB40\/-uuArdbaRkY\/s1600-h\/chicken+fabric.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/SCkE7jpoaBI\/AAAAAAAAB40\/-uuArdbaRkY\/s400\/chicken+fabric.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I purchased this fried egg fabric some time ago in a local quilt shop. I was not sure what I would make from the fabric, but as a chicken collector, I knew I had to have some of that wonderful egg fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I recently came across the chicken fabric on the left. I knew that this fun chicken fabric would be perfect paired with the fried eggs. I had a lot of fun looking through patterns trying to decide which pattern would best showcase these special fabrics. I came across a quilt on the Internet that reminded me of Quiltmaker&#8217;s Warm Wishes quilt pattern. LindaJ reminded me that the quilt was also a lot like Atkinson Designs&#8217; Tile Tango pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I worked backwards from what I wanted to see as a finished size for this quilt. I wanted this quilt to finish approximately 45 to 50 inches square. I drafted the design on scrap paper and figured out how many strips and what size of strips that I needed to cut out of which fabric.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/SCkE8TpoaCI\/AAAAAAAAB48\/TEBBum1OY9Q\/s400\/DSCN7085.jpg\" border=\"0\">This is the resulting flimsy, Which Came First&#8230;.the Chicken or the Egg?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased this fried egg fabric some time ago in a local quilt shop. I was not sure what I would make from the fabric, but as a chicken collector, I knew I had to have some of that wonderful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg\/\">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":[193,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken-or-egg","category-flimsy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}