{"id":463,"date":"2006-10-05T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2006-10-05T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T14:27:00","slug":"halloween-octagon-table-quilt-2-flimsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/10\/halloween-octagon-table-quilt-2-flimsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Octagon Table Quilt #2 &#8211; Flimsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second Halloween Table Quilt I have made. This one has 8 sides. These are so quick to make, taking only a couple of hours from cutting the strips to the finished flimsy stage. The angle for this 8-sided quilt is 45 degrees.<a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/640\/Halloween%20Octagon%20Table%20Topper%20004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Halloween%20Octagon%20Table%20Topper%20004.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Getting the pieces cut for this quilt was a little harder than cutting the 60 degree angle for the Hexagon quilt. I don&#8217;t have a proper 45 degree ruler so I had to improvise. I do have a 45 degree diamond shaped ruler that I used to line up my long ruler. The edges on my diamond ruler are not clean and this resulted in a variation in the width of the finished cut pieces.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/640\/Halloween%20Hexagon%20How%20To%20020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Halloween%20Hexagon%20How%20To%20020.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> I would definitely recommend purchasing a proper 45 degree ruler if you plan on making one of these 8-sided quilts.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/640\/Halloween%20Hexagon%20How%20To%20021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Halloween%20Hexagon%20How%20To%20021.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/\" target=\"ext\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Posted by Picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second Halloween Table Quilt I have made. This one has 8 sides. These are so quick to make, taking only a couple of hours from cutting the strips to the finished flimsy stage. The angle for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/10\/halloween-octagon-table-quilt-2-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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}