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<\/a><\/p>\nI did make some changes, especially in the background.\u00a0 After auditioning\u00a0 several other choices, it seemed best to stick with that original polka dot. I still may change that one under the stem that might be better darker. What do you think? This poppy decided to be darker than the original with a lavender center. As I worked on it I thought it might be fun to make one with a white poppy. I just got a catalog with poppies and there is a white one with red in the center. But for now I think I am poppied out!<\/p>\n
We are into some gorgeous fall weather right now and I sat out on the deck to remove all of the freezer paper from the back late yesterday afternoon. The perfection was shattered by the arrival of a visiting dog next door and so my dogs had to\u00a0 defend their territory much to my dismay because of my new plantings on the fence line.\u00a0 I didn’t have the heart to investigate the damage yesterday, but on checking in this morning I was pleasantly surprised to see that for the most part it came through unscathed.<\/p>\n
I think I will take a few days off from sewing and attend to some of the more mundane\u00a0 things. I must get the Poppy pattern off to the printer and “Bittersweet Memories” off to the La Connor Museum show in WA.\u00a0 And I suppose a little house cleaning ought to be on the agenda, along with catching up on the books!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s the poppy progress at the end of working on Sunday, and here it is finished on Monday afternoon. I did make some changes, especially in the background.\u00a0 After auditioning\u00a0 several other choices, it seemed best to stick with that original polka dot. I still may change that one under the stem that might be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,66],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-poppy-quilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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