{"id":930,"date":"2010-04-12T09:41:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2010-04-12T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T14:41:29","slug":"thin-envelope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=930","title":{"rendered":"Thin Envelope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made good progress on the new piece in spite of only having had maybe two days of uninterrupted work on it.   I&#8217;m at an impasse though right now- not being happy with any of the choices at hand for background.  Today with a fresh eye, I will revisit the stash and hope I will not have to shop elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s mail brought a thin envelope from AQS and the sinking feeling that my entry had been rejected &#8211; but NO! &#8211; my last entry was the fawn quilt and it is already gone for Paducah.  The envelope contained my prize money check for Burlingame Fire at Lancaster. Now that&#8217;s a good kind of thin envelope!! (For those of you who are not entering shows &#8211; no one wants the thin envelop that only contains a rejection letter; the desired envelope is the one that contains all of the paperwork of acceptance, shipping instructions and a contestant&#8217;s ribbon usually. The FAT envelope!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made good progress on the new piece in spite of only having had maybe two days of uninterrupted work on it. I&#8217;m at an impasse though right now- not being happy with any of the choices at hand for background. Today with a fresh eye, I will revisit the stash and hope I will [&hellip;]<\/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":[29,100,99],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contests","tag-fawn","tag-work-in-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}