{"id":388,"date":"2007-04-01T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=388"},"modified":"2007-04-01T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:12:00","slug":"march-goals-met","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/march-goals-met\/","title":{"rendered":"March Goals Met"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My goals for March were to finish my March bluework snowman block and to quilt and bind my Bricks and Stepping Stones Quilt.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAkzhjay8I\/AAAAAAAAAf4\/5eUflvBcZZ8\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+001.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>The March bluework snowman block was finished about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAk1Bjay_I\/AAAAAAAAAgQ\/IYSRlN73hOQ\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+010.jpg\" border=\"0\"> &#8230;.but the Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt was not finished until late last night&#8211;just in time to make the March deadline! This quilt will be given to one of my niece&#8217;s as a wedding gift when she gets married on April 14. <\/p>\n<p>This quilt measures 86&#8243; x 104&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAlJhjazAI\/AAAAAAAAAgY\/8s5O54lYdH0\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+011.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>The piecing pattern is from Bonnie&#8217;s Quiltville website. If you are interested in the pattern, follow this link:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiltville.com\/bricksandstones.shtml\">http:\/\/www.quiltville.com\/bricksandstones.shtml<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I have quilted this quilt in the Wave design using Superior&#8217;s So Fine thread. This is a thread developed by John Flynn and it is the best performing thread I have come across for my long arm. I pushed the speed of the quilting on this quilt and the thread took a beating. This thread never broke once and never gave me an ounce of tension trouble. I like all of Superior&#8217;s threads, but So Fine will be the future workhorse of my studio, I am sure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAlJxjazBI\/AAAAAAAAAgg\/QVGuqCej8B8\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+013.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/div>\n<p>This is a closeup of the fabric on the border of this quilt. I love this fabric. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAk0Bjay9I\/AAAAAAAAAgA\/JygAqnxeTiU\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+002.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I also finished my crayon block. The moles seem to have eaten my daffodil bulbs so the only daffodils I am going to see are those that I put on a quilt!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_VOQOwkbSspA\/RhAk0hjay-I\/AAAAAAAAAgI\/AWvNB2gZDyc\/s400\/Bricks+and+Stepping+Stones+009.jpg\" border=\"0\">This last picture is Joey. When I am finished with the binding on a quilt, I like to measure the length and width of the quilt. The tape measure proved to be too tempting a toy for Joey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goals for March were to finish my March bluework snowman block and to quilt and bind my Bricks and Stepping Stones Quilt. The March bluework snowman block was finished about a week ago. &#8230;.but the Bricks and Stepping Stones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2007\/04\/march-goals-met\/\">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":[260,269,63,225,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-work","category-bricks-and-stepping-stones-quilt","category-gift","category-thread","category-ufo-finish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}