{"id":227,"date":"2008-12-13T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:54:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:54:23","slug":"finishedor-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Finished?…Or Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent several days tweaking and making changes and yesterday morning I was ready to complete the final seams and be done!<\/p>\n

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However, when I measured it, it was about 40 x 44″. I need for it to finish at least 40″ and I know quilting will make it smaller so I tried adding a border to the bottom.\u00a0 This gave it an almost square to vertical orientation and I had envisioned a more horizontal look.\u00a0 Adding another vertical border to make it wider looked like just that .. adding a border to make it wider.\u00a0 I decided what it needed was to have more fabric added from within so another day was spent ripping out and adding in. I think that achieved a much more pleasing composition and the piece is currently off the wall having all of it’s freezer paper removed so that I can layer and begin the quilting.\u00a0 This has been a much longer than usual process for me. but sometimes that happens. They can’t all be like “Just Dandy”\u00a0 which went from concept to completion in just one week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve spent several days tweaking and making changes and yesterday morning I was ready to complete the final seams and be done! However, when I measured it, it was about 40 x 44″. I need for it to finish at least 40″ and I know quilting will make it smaller so I tried adding a […]<\/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":[100],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}