{"id":173,"date":"2005-08-21T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-21T21:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/?p=173"},"modified":"2005-08-21T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-21T21:17:48","slug":"block-of-the-month-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Block of the Month #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quilt store down by the Olympia Farmers Market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baysidequilting.com\/\">Bayside Quilting<\/a> has a Buck a Block program. Each month they have the supplies for a quilt block and once you sign up it just costs a buck to pick up your block. I signed up in June and bought the blocks I&#8217;d missed and have been buying the new blocks as they come out.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I finally created block #1! Sewing is not my thing. I want to sew, I want to like sewing, I want to be good at it. So far it ain&#8217;t happening. I get so stressed and tense over the cutting, the ironing, the sewing&#8211; all of it. Knotted my neck and shoulders up real good yesterday. But I finished the block!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/August05.jpg\" title=\"Block of the Month #1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/thumb-August05.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"Block of the Month #1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything didn&#8217;t line up quite right and my seam allowances are a little off. I&#8217;m trying to decide if I want to buy some more of the fabric (or another of the block kits) and remake the block as I get better or do this entire lap quilt as is showing how I improve (hopefully) along the way. The perfectionist in me wants to redo the block the honest person in me (and the lazy person) wants to keep it as is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quilt store down by the Olympia Farmers Market, Bayside Quilting has a Buck a Block program. Each month they have the supplies for a quilt block and once you sign up it just costs a buck to pick up your block. I signed up in June and bought the blocks I&#8217;d missed and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Xt8g-2N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateandryan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}