{"id":4081,"date":"2007-02-11T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/11\/i-finally-finished-a-craft-project"},"modified":"2023-03-07T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:10:18","slug":"i-finally-finished-a-craft-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2007\/02\/11\/i-finally-finished-a-craft-project\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally finished a craft project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my first quilt ever.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92825-img_0543.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/92825-img_0543.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030410905640589442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did a fairly terrible job.  I measured the squares by eyeballing only and I ripped the fabric into pieces instead of cutting.  The lady at the craft store was very disapproving when I told her I wasn&#8217;t going to use a frame to tie it.  She gave me an earful of advice I decided to ignore.  See, I have no patience for quilting, all the painstaking measuring and ironing, moving at a snail&#8217;s pace.  I like to create shortcuts wherever possible.  With help from mom on the telephone, this came together rather quickly. <\/p>\n<p>And I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s perfectly smooth and aligned.  It&#8217;s warm and it&#8217;s Star Wars! <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/44b0d-img_0550.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/44b0d-img_0550.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030410909935556754\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>(We had to leave church early because Ben felt a migraine coming.  He&#8217;s napping upstairs now while I post these pictures and enjoy a snack of crackers and goat cheese with mineral water and craisins.  For some reason I find that funny.)<\/p>\n<p>Friday I finally painted our bedroom!  I haven&#8217;t hung much art yet, but here&#8217;s a look at it so far:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/7cf5e-img_0545.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/7cf5e-img_0545.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030410914230524066\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/c03e4-img_0546.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/c03e4-img_0546.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030410918525491378\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also replaced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azpartsmaster.com\/shopazp\/images\/catalog\/ishop\/DLT2502.jpg\">ugly faucets<\/a> with something more appropriate for a pedestal sink.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/f428a-img_0523.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eaumaison.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/f428a-img_0523.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5030410927115425986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>I love being a homeowner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my first quilt ever. I did a fairly terrible job. I measured the squares by eyeballing only and I ripped the fabric into pieces instead of cutting. The lady at the craft store was very disapproving when I told her I wasn&#8217;t going to use a frame to tie it. She gave me an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11965,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4081\/revisions\/11965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}