{"id":2343,"date":"2013-03-25T10:08:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-03-28T08:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T13:49:40","slug":"more-snow-saqa-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2343","title":{"rendered":"More Snow, SAQA Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little over a week ago it was 87 degrees here and I spent the better part of two days working outside, trimming, weeding and transplanting! Now we are covered in snow again, I have never seen snow as deep as this on the branches, at least 7 inches!<\/p>\n

\"deepsnow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It only lasted an hour or so until the wind and the birds knocked it off but it was pretty neat while it lasted.<\/p>\n

\"snowspinner\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The whirligig thing looked pretty, too, until the wind came up and the drifting started.<\/p>\n

It was the kind of day you want to stay inside and hunker down with some fun project. I finished my 12 inch square for the SAQA auction <\/a>which I was hoping to get finished in time to send it to them before the April 1 Early Bird Deadline.<\/p>\n

\"NorthernCardinal\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the past my entry has always been in the A group. but I am slow this year and it will be in the B group, I think. “Northern Cardinal” is from a photo I took after the last snowfall, and it came out even better than I expected! I want to keep it!!<\/p>\n

\"NoCardinalDetail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The background fabric is a batik with a subtle tree branch print that I purchased especially for this piece. I highlighted some of the print with the quilting lines.<\/p>\n

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A little over a week ago it was 87 degrees here and I spent the better part of two days working outside, trimming, weeding and transplanting! Now we are covered in snow again, I have never seen snow as deep as this on the branches, at least 7 inches! It only lasted an hour or […]<\/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":[125,30,27,103,95,8],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-fabric","tag-finished","tag-machine-quilting","tag-saqa-auction","tag-snow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","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=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}