{"id":2640,"date":"2014-01-26T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2014-01-26T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T14:57:38","slug":"quilt-it-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=2640","title":{"rendered":"Quilt It-today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt It -today magazine has featured my &#8220;Early Birds&#8221; wallhanging in it&#8217;s Spring issue (March-April 2014), in Gathering Inspiration!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/quiltittoday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2646\" alt=\"quiltittoday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/quiltittoday-231x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/quiltittoday-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/quiltittoday.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early Birds&#8221; was created for International Quilt Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Celebrate Spring&#8221; contest and it won Best of Show that year! It is owned by the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/qitEarlyB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2647\" alt=\"qitEarlyB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/qitEarlyB-229x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/qitEarlyB-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/qitEarlyB.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently I attended a local art group gathering and we spent the evening dying fabric using baggies and a microwave oven &#8211; instant gratification!! I was specifically trying to come up with a fabric that might go with the scrap (shown) from the sky of the dog quilt that I am currently working on.\u00a0 The results were not really what I was after, but perhaps some of it will work.\u00a0 If not in this quilt, somewhere else. It&#8217;s always fun to see what you get, but I do not have the knowledge or control for predictable results!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/handdyes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2648\" alt=\"handdyes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/handdyes-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/handdyes-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/handdyes.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the dog quilt&#8212;I found out that I am not allowed to post pictures of it beyond what I have already done. So no more updates on that for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quilt It -today magazine has featured my &#8220;Early Birds&#8221; wallhanging in it&#8217;s Spring issue (March-April 2014), in Gathering Inspiration! &#8220;Early Birds&#8221; was created for International Quilt Festival&#8217;s &#8220;Celebrate Spring&#8221; contest and it won Best of Show that year! It is owned by the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection. Recently I attended a local art group gathering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,128,30],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-dogs","tag-fabric"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2656,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}