{"id":749,"date":"2013-02-10T07:52:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T15:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-02-10T07:52:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T15:52:16","slug":"hawaii-slide-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/hawaii-slide-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii Slide Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is the newest quilt that I am working on.\u00a0 This year, I wanted to focus on making the quilts that I was dreaming about making when I was on vacations and buying all the great fabrics that would later remind me of the places that I had visited.\u00a0 I rarely buy the traditional tourist\u00a0souvenirs when on vacation.\u00a0 I now look for fabrics that invoke memories of the place\u00a0 I am visiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My husband and I cruised to Hawaii in the fall of 2010.\u00a0 While visiting the Islands I collected cotton fabrics that reminded me of the thousands of Hawaiian shirts I saw people wearing.<\/p>\n<p>This is what I have assembled so far on my design wall.\u00a0 The quilt will be queen size (90&#8243; x 102&#8243;) when I am finished.\u00a0 The pattern calls for cutting 2 of the large 8 in x 8 in squares from 21 different fabrics for a total of 42 squares.\u00a0 This photo shows the first 21 squares and their sashing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-750\" alt=\"DSC_0292\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0292-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0292-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0292-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/DSC_0292-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This pattern is from Terry Atkinson&#8217;s line of patterns and is called, Slide Show.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/atk138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-751\" alt=\"atk138\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/atk138.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>My quilt will finish with a border of blue batik with a white hibiscus flower on it.\u00a0 I searched for a blue fabric the colour of the ocean for the border to remind me of the endless blue ocean we sailed across for 5 days before we came to the Islands.\u00a0 Five days of sailing on open water with nothing to see but sky and water is worthy of a memory in this quilt!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the newest quilt that I am working on.\u00a0 This year, I wanted to focus on making the quilts that I was dreaming about making when I was on vacations and buying all the great fabrics that would later &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/hawaii-slide-show\/\">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":[66,76,285,286,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atkinson","category-fabric-purchases","category-hawaii","category-slide-show","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","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=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}