{"id":121,"date":"2014-03-31T19:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/?p=121"},"modified":"2014-03-31T19:40:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:40:50","slug":"look-i-came-back-after-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Look I came back after a week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_122\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122\" alt=\"Embroidery for my block party challenge quilt!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0017.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0017.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0017-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" id=\"attachment_123\" style=\"width: 650px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123\" alt=\"My two block party challenge blocks!  You can see the fabric I was trying to mimic!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0009.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0009.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0009-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">My two block party challenge blocks! You can see the fabric I was trying to mimic!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_124\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124\" alt=\"Here is the original block party assignment block.  I was given the blue flowered fabric.  I will take it back to the guild and see if I will win  blocks enough to make a quilt!  \" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0020.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0020.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_0020-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here is the original block party assignment block. I was given the blue flowered fabric. I will take it back to the guild and see if I will win blocks enough to make a quilt!<\/p><\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well I have been busy this week. \u00c2\u00a0I finished my block party block for my quilt guild (Capital Quilters Guild), which asked that we mimic, using embroidery or applique, some aspect of the fabric we were given. \u00c2\u00a0The block party fabric will then be used to border the white embroidery or applique block. \u00c2\u00a0I always make two extra blocks for myself with my own fabric for the block party challenge and my own quilt in the end&#8211;which is what the first picture is \u00c2\u00a0here! \u00c2\u00a0 I am also continuing to work on my madness\/genius project&#8230;at least in my head! \u00c2\u00a0I will get back to stitching it this week. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m very excited! \u00c2\u00a0I also checked out a Harold Bloom book called\u00c2\u00a0<em>Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0from the library. \u00c2\u00a0Virginia Woolf is on his list, and he defines genius in very interesting ways. \u00c2\u00a0I am looking forward to reading and exploring more! \u00c2\u00a0I also found two beautiful books for use as ledgers for my work samples and ideas&#8230;one at the North Carolina Museum of Art and one at my favorite used book store, Reader&#8217;s Corner! \u00c2\u00a0They both contain beautiful art, and I am pleased that my work will live along side those masters. \u00c2\u00a0More about my ledger projects and madness\/genius soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I have been busy this week. \u00c2\u00a0I finished my block party block for my quilt guild (Capital Quilters Guild), which asked that we mimic, using embroidery or applique, some aspect of the fabric we were given. \u00c2\u00a0The block party fabric will then be used to border the white embroidery or applique block. \u00c2\u00a0I always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingercherry.com\/fibers\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}