{"id":605,"date":"2016-11-04T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2016-11-03T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T22:46:23","slug":"in-progress-cozy-christmas-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/04\/in-progress-cozy-christmas-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"In Progress &#8211; Cozy Christmas Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first ever appliqu\u00e9 project and I think it&#8217;s going pretty well. The pattern is a <a href=\"http:\/\/beeinmybonnetco.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/cozy-christmas-new-sew-along-bee.html\">free download<\/a> from Lori Holt &#038; Riley Blake Designs. I thought about using my own fabric choices, but then I decided the Cozy Christmas fabric in the official kit was too cute to pass up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I did the first three blocks quite a while ago and I&#8217;ve had all the rest of the appliqu\u00e9 pieces sewed and turned for quite a while, but I needed to be in the right mood to appliqu\u00e9 them to the background pieces because of all the thread color changes. I finally got in the mood today! <\/p>\n<p>Here are all twelve of my blocks post-appliqu\u00e9:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"603\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/04\/in-progress-cozy-christmas-quilt\/img_4231\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?fit=2051%2C2051\" data-orig-size=\"2051,2051\" 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;1478193988&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;0.00833333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_4231\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?fit=663%2C663\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=663%2C663\" alt=\"img_4231\" width=\"663\" height=\"663\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=768%2C768 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=982%2C982 982w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?resize=400%2C400 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?w=1326 1326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4231.jpg?w=1989 1989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few of them have some additional embroidery work that needs to be done, but other than that, I just need to piece the block borders and then assemble the top and send it to the quilter. This is going to be such a cute quilt when it&#8217;s all done. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my first ever appliqu\u00e9 project and I think it&#8217;s going pretty well. The pattern is a free download from Lori Holt &#038; Riley Blake Designs. I thought about using my own fabric choices, but then I decided the Cozy Christmas fabric in the official kit was too cute to pass up. \ud83d\ude42 I&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/04\/in-progress-cozy-christmas-quilt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Progress &#8211; Cozy Christmas Quilt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":604,"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":[169,3,142,37,46],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-progress","tag-applique","tag-aurifil","tag-cozy-christmas-quilt","tag-lori-holt","tag-riley-blake-fabrics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_2164.jpg?fit=640%2C308","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-9L","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}