{"id":34,"date":"2011-11-24T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2011-11-24T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T20:32:00","slug":"popsicle-sticks-and-the-fifth-fab-birthday-par-tay-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/popsicle-sticks-and-the-fifth-fab-birthday-par-tay-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Popsicle Sticks and the Fifth FAB Birthday PAR-TAY of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Happy Thanksgiving to my quilting friends south of the border in the U.S.A!<\/div>\n
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Today is my birthday.\u00a0 I am the fifth and last FAB to be celebrating my birthday this year.\u00a0 We have postponed the PAR-TAY until the new year–either January or February.\u00a0 With 5 busy people’s schedules to organize, Thanksgiving celebrations, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, we have all agreed that we will have more time to relax and celebrate after the New Year.<\/div>\n
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In the meantime, I have picked the quilt pattern that I want to work on during my PAR-TAY day.\u00a0 I have chosen Popsicle Sticks from Atkinson Designs.<\/div>\n
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This is my test block.\u00a0 I am glad I spent the time to put together a test block ahead of the quilting day as I now know that I will make the most efficient use of my fabric if I use WOF strips rather than FQ’s.<\/div>\n
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I still have many fall coloured \/ themed fabrics in my stash to pull from so this will be another quilt from my stash.\u00a0 I am planning to make my quilt King sized – 112″ x 112″.\u00a0 I will need 49 of these 16 inch blocks made from 2.5 inch strips of fabric.<\/div>\n
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Terry Atkinson mentions on the pattern jacket that you will need 4 jelly rolls (2.5 inch strips, 42″ long)\u00a0or 50 fat quarters.\u00a0 She goes on to say that if your fat quarters are smaller than 18″ x 21″, you will have to allow extra yardage.\u00a0 \ufeffWhen I was making my test block, I found that fat quarters did not work for me–too much waste.<\/div>\n
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This is a copy of the quilt from the pattern jacket.\u00a0 This quilt is simple but effective–a take off from the traditional Rail Fence quilt pattern.\u00a0 I have my strips cut and I am ready to PAR-TAY!\ufeff<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Thanksgiving to my quilting friends south of the border in the U.S.A! Today is my birthday.\u00a0 I am the fifth and last FAB to be celebrating my birthday this year.\u00a0 We have postponed the PAR-TAY until the new year–either … Continue reading →<\/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":[18,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-popsicle-sticks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}