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So June, four years ago, I finished my very first quilt. I had made pillows before, but this was my first quilt that you could put on a bed. It was for my son who was at that time three years old, and still sleeping in a toddler bed. \"First<\/a>\u00a0 He is now seven and sleeping on a full size futon. When I ran across the fabric I had used to make the quilt in the fabric store last year, I picked up enough to expand the quilt to a full sized quilt, and today I finished it. It is not a great quilt by any means, but it is functional, and sturdy (definitely needed in my house) and my son picked out the fabrics, so he seems to like it.\"first<\/a>\"first<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So June, four years ago, I finished my very first quilt. I had made pillows before, but this was my first quilt that you could put on a bed. It was for my son who was at that time three years old, and still sleeping in a toddler bed. \u00a0 He is now seven and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/first-quilt-expanded3.jpg?fit=840%2C573&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/author\/admin\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/first-quilt-expanded3.jpg?fit=840%2C573&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gp05-n3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1353,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/mechanical-monstrosity\/","url_meta":{"origin":1429,"position":0},"title":"Mechanical Monstrosity","author":"Julie Stubbs","date":"June 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 A couple months ago my husband did some computer work for some acquaintances of ours.\u00a0 Knowing that I was somewhat crafty, she offered him her old embroidery machine in exchange for his work.\u00a0 My husband doesn't know much about these sorts of things, (nor in fact, did I) but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "embroidery"","block_context":{"text":"embroidery","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/category\/embroidery\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bag3.jpg?fit=813%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bag3.jpg?fit=813%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bag3.jpg?fit=813%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/bag3.jpg?fit=813%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1127,"url":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/spring-into-sprang\/","url_meta":{"origin":1429,"position":1},"title":"Spring into sprang","author":"Julie Stubbs","date":"July 24, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Late this last spring I was fortunate enough to be able to attend a lecture given by Carol James, author of the book Sprang Unsprung: an illustrated guide to interlinking interlacing and intertwining. 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