{"id":1172,"date":"2007-02-18T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/halloween_quilt\/"},"modified":"2007-02-18T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T04:01:43","slug":"halloween_quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/halloween_quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year or so ago, I saw a quilt on the cover of <em>American Patchwork &#038; Quilting<\/em> that really spoke to me.  The designer had used medium to large scale Halloween prints in two different blocks with sashing and two borders.  I carried that issue around for  the better part of a year until I decided I&#8217;d give it a try.<br \/>\nIt turns out that I had a <strong>lot<\/strong> of orange fabrics, and a fair number of black Halloween fabrics, but not as many of the big print fabrics.  So far this quilt is a bit more understated than the one on the cover of the magazine.<br \/>\nToday, I laid out some of the 27 blocks I&#8217;d made on the living room floor, to see if what I had would work.<br \/>\nThis is what it looks like so far:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Halloween%20Block%20Layout%20good%20%282%29.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/Halloween%20Block%20Layout%20good%20%282%29.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nThese blocks will be put together with a dark green and black sashing, and then surrounded by a border made of strips of all of these fabrics cut at a 45 degree angle.  The last border should be black with stars, or possibly black with pumpkins, depending on what I can find at this time of year.<br \/>\nThe extra blocks will be used to make a table runner, as soon as I find a background fabric that I like.<br \/>\nMy other project for the day was to make muslin bags for dried catnip.  I think I may have erred in storing the catnip in a ziplock bag for several months.  I think the essential oil may have evaporated.  It&#8217;s either that, or I have an incredibly lazy cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year or so ago, I saw a quilt on the cover of American Patchwork &#038; Quilting that really spoke to me. The designer had used medium to large scale Halloween prints in two different blocks with sashing and two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/halloween_quilt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}