{"id":357,"date":"2016-08-05T19:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-08-05T19:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T23:03:38","slug":"in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/in-progress-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-quilt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress \u2013 Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m so happy with my progress on my Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal quilt! I just need to finish up the letter X blocks and then I can assemble the top. Here are some progress pictures so far.<\/p>\n

Snowballing the corners of the letter O center blocks:
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Corner cut offs from the snowballed blocks. I’m going to use them to make a matching pillow, I think.
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All of the HSTs prior to pressing and the cut offs again:
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All of the HSTs after pressing:
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Trimmings from all of the HSTs. I just love seeing a big stack of trimmings!
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Top and bottom rows for the letter O blocks prior to pressing:
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Top and bottom rows for the letter O blocks after pressing:
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A completed letter O block:
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All of the completed letter O blocks:
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Chain piecing the HSTs for the letter X blocks:
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Finished pairs of HSTs:
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All the parts of the letter X blocks almost ready to be assembled:
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I just need to press the top and bottom rows and assemble the letter X blocks and then I can put the top together. I put together this preview in EQ7 and I think it’s going to be so pretty when it’s finished! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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I’m so happy with my progress on my Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal quilt! I just need to finish up the letter X blocks and then I can assemble the top. Here are some progress pictures so far. Snowballing the corners of the letter O center blocks: Corner cut offs from the snowballed… Continue reading In Progress \u2013 Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":356,"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":[3,65,64,66,90,48,7],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-progress","tag-aurifil","tag-grand-canal","tag-hugs-kisses","tag-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal","tag-juki","tag-kate-spain","tag-moda-fabrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hugs-and-kisses-on-the-grand-canal-logo.png?fit=600%2C680","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-5L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}