{"id":702,"date":"2016-12-26T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:45:21","slug":"best-of-2016-linkup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/26\/best-of-2016-linkup\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2016 Linkup :)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs<\/a> is hosting the \u201cBest of\u201d linky party again this year! I decided to highlight my five favorite finishes of the year. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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#5 – Ugly Christmas Sweaters Quilt<\/a>:
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\nI mean, how could you not love this one! All those bright colors? I knew I had to make one as soon as Lorna at Sew Fresh Quilts<\/a> first posted about this one. Sew cute! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

#4 – Summer Sampler 2016<\/a>:
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\nThis was another one that I knew I had to make as soon as I saw some previews of it! The pattern is still available here<\/a>. I used all Kona solids for this one and I really love the way it finished up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

#3 – Minecraft Quilt<\/a>:
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\nI had been wanting to make a Minecraft quilt for my daughter, but all that charting and planning just seemed like a giant drag. Then I saw that Kelli at That Looks Like It Needs Stitches<\/a>was going to be hosting a quilt along. Problem solved! I gave it to my daughter for her birthday and she loved it! She sleeps with it every night and wraps up in it when she’s cold. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

#2 – Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal Quilt<\/a>:
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\nI fell in love with and bought a fat quarter bundle of Kate Spain’s Grand Canal line, with no plan for how to use it. I decided to use a pattern I had designed a few months back and make a new quilt for our bed. I dubbed the quilt Hugs & Kisses on the Grand Canal. This is the first quilt that I’ve designed and made all by myself. In fact, the pattern is now up for sale in my shop on Etsy, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#1 – Snapshots Quilt<\/a>:
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\nOn a spur-of-the-moment decision, I bought the kit to make the Snapshots Quilt by Fat Quarter Shop. I didn’t know how hard it would be to make, but I decided to give it a try. The instructions were very easy to follow and I was able to mostly keep up each month and get it done at the beginning of the year. Also on a spur-of-the-moment decision, I decided to submit it for consideration for the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Show<\/a> and it was accepted! I ended up not winning a ribbon, but it was so exciting to see it hanging up at the show and see people looking at it and enjoying it. I also entered it in the State Fair of Virginia. I didn’t win a fair ribbon, but I did get an Award of Merit from the National Association of Certified Quilt Judges<\/a>! (Scroll down on that page to see the photo.) I was extremely excited to have made an award-winning quilt! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheryl at Meadow Mist Designs is hosting the \u201cBest of\u201d linky party again this year! I decided to highlight my five favorite finishes of the year. \ud83d\ude42 #5 – Ugly Christmas Sweaters Quilt: I mean, how could you not love this one! All those bright colors? I knew I had to make one as soon… Continue reading Best of 2016 Linkup \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703,"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":[32,9],"tags":[66,6,174,20,26],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-hop","category-finished","tag-hugs-kisses-on-the-grand-canal","tag-minecraft-quilt","tag-snapshots-quilt","tag-summer-sampler-2016","tag-ugly-christmas-sweaters-quilt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Best-of-2016.jpg?fit=320%2C320","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7y5BE-bk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/quiltsbylaurel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}