{"id":242,"date":"2016-07-10T16:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T20:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-07-10T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T20:47:34","slug":"in-progress-stars-stripes-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/in-progress-stars-stripes-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress &#8211; Stars &#038; Stripes Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the Stars &#038; Stripes quilt pattern was released by <a href=\"http:\/\/thimbleblossoms.bigcartel.com\">Thimble Blossoms<\/a>, they started popping up all over Instagram and Facebook. I finally decided that it was too cute and I needed one too. <a href=\"http:\/\/fatquartershop.com\">Fat Quarter Shop<\/a> had a red, white, and blue fat quarter bundle called Midsummer Picnic that was perfect for this quilt. It&#8217;s sold out now, but it had the perfect number of red and blue fat quarters in it for this quilt. I got all the strips cut out yesterday and started sewing this morning. By lunchtime, I had all these beautiful flag blocks ready to go!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"241\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/in-progress-stars-stripes-quilt\/img_2895\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?fit=1954%2C1954\" data-orig-size=\"1954,1954\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1468167800&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.15&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00156739811912&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stars &#038; Stripes Quilt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?fit=663%2C663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=663%2C663\" alt=\"Stars &amp; Stripes Quilt\" width=\"663\" height=\"663\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=982%2C982 982w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?resize=400%2C400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?w=1954 1954w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?w=1326 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, I just need to get sashing and backing fabric to finish it up. I really love simple projects like this that come together quickly. I gives me a nice sense of accomplishment. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Stars &#038; Stripes quilt pattern was released by Thimble Blossoms, they started popping up all over Instagram and Facebook. I finally decided that it was too cute and I needed one too. Fat Quarter Shop had a red, white, and blue fat quarter bundle called Midsummer Picnic that was perfect for this quilt.&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/10\/in-progress-stars-stripes-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Progress &#8211; Stars &#038; Stripes Quilt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241,"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":[3,36,49,46,67,50],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-progress","tag-aurifil","tag-fat-quarter-shop","tag-midsummer-picnic","tag-riley-blake-fabrics","tag-stars-stripes-quilt","tag-thimble-blossoms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_2895.jpg?fit=1954%2C1954","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-3U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","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=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}