{"id":887,"date":"2013-06-22T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T02:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2013-11-17T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:06:20","slug":"happy-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2013\/06\/happy-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 25th Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari.jpg\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On September 5, 2012, my brother and sister-in-law celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-890\" alt=\"clark and kari3\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari3-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari3-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari3-452x300.jpg 452w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This picture of the happy couple was taken September 2, 2012 in the restaurant at the hotel\/convention center where we celebrated their wedding reception 25 years ago.<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-888\" alt=\"clark and kari\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari-452x300.jpg 452w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My brother and sister-in-law have wanted one of my bed sized quilts for quite some time.\u00a0 The marking of 25 years of marriage seemed like the perfect time to present them with a quilt.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t want to promise that I would make them a bed-sized quilt from scratch because I wasn&#8217;t sure exactly how long it would take to finish it with all of the other commitments I have.\u00a0 So, I went to my stash of flimsies and picked &#8220;The Simple Cross&#8221; to quilt and gift to them.\u00a0 Although they saw the quilt top on September 2, 2012, it wasn&#8217;t until June 22, 2013 that they were presented with a finished quilt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-889\" alt=\"clark and kari2\" src=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari2-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/clark-and-kari2.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>This is a picture of the quilt on the bed at my brother and sister-in-law&#8217;s house on the evening of the day that the finished quilt was presented to them.<\/p>\n<p>The Simple Cross was made from a pattern that was in the September\/October 2000 issue of Fons and Porter&#8217;s magazine, For the Love of Quilting.\u00a0 I started making the blocks for The Simple Cross on <a title=\"March 12, 2006\" href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/the-simple-cross\/\">March 12, 2006<\/a>\u00a0and finished the quilt to the flimsy stage on <a title=\"March 28, 2006\" href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/the-simple-cross-completed-flimsy\/\">March 28, 2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 5, 2012, my brother and sister-in-law celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.This picture of the happy couple was taken September 2, 2012 in the restaurant at the hotel\/convention center where we celebrated their wedding reception 25 years ago. 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