{"id":179,"date":"2016-06-09T21:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2016-06-09T21:09:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T01:09:57","slug":"in-progress-minecraft-quilt-pieced-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/in-progress-minecraft-quilt-pieced-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress – Minecraft Quilt – Pieced Backing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kelli over at That Looks Like It Needs Stitches<\/a> posted a picture of an Ender Dragon that she is going to make for her son’s Minecraft Quilt. I decided I wanted to make one for Alison’s quilt too and I wanted to try my hand at making my own pattern.<\/p>\n

In order to get the dimensions right, I used the picture she posted and plotted the whole thing out in MacStitch<\/a> – a cross stitch design program that I usually use for converting antique cross stitch samplers into patterns for sale. I printed out a one-page preview and started dividing the pattern up into blocks that were easier to handle in one sitting at the sewing machine. Then, I further divided up each block into chunks and made a list of the pieces I would need to cut for each chunk.<\/p>\n

I’ve put together two of the twelve sections I came up with and here’s what it looks like so far. The black is a wing and the gray below is the end of the tail. \ud83d\ude42
\n\"24-backing-2\"<\/p>\n

I have the third section cut out. I’m hoping to get the rest of them cut out this weekend. It’s also Harborfest<\/a> weekend here in Norfolk, so we’ll see how much I get done. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kelli over at That Looks Like It Needs Stitches posted a picture of an Ender Dragon that she is going to make for her son’s Minecraft Quilt. I decided I wanted to make one for Alison’s quilt too and I wanted to try my hand at making my own pattern. In order to get the… Continue reading In Progress – Minecraft Quilt – Pieced Backing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,18,5,6,7,27],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-progress","tag-aurifil","tag-bella-solids","tag-kona-solids","tag-minecraft-mondays","tag-minecraft-quilt","tag-moda-fabrics","tag-spell-it-with-fabric"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/minecraft-quilt-image.png?fit=522%2C640","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-2T","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}