{"id":284,"date":"2021-12-16T16:02:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2021-12-16T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T16:02:41","slug":"its-not-like-ive-been-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;ve been anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/269109657_10161569374271258_479616498807937692_n-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/269109657_10161569374271258_479616498807937692_n-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/269109657_10161569374271258_479616498807937692_n-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/269109657_10161569374271258_479616498807937692_n-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/269109657_10161569374271258_479616498807937692_n.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we are again. 14 months since my last post. What on earth have I been doing? Stayed at home, tried to fit in daily walks. Shopping locally or online. What can my excuse be for being so quiet for so long? I blame concentrating on staying safe, waiting for vaccine appointments, and Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quilt above, I call my orphan block quilt. The stripy blocks were handed into my craft group from a crafters clearance. I tidied them as best as I could and used fabric from my stash to assemble the quilt top. It lay around after I had quilted each stripe as I wasn&#8217;t sure how to proceed. I took it downstairs the other day and decided to just keep the quilting simple. The piecing wasn&#8217;t accurate enough for fancy stuff. Finished it last night. It&#8217;ll keep someone cosy this winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for Facebook. It wasn&#8217;t just the time browsing that was to blame. Last year I realised I was a member of UKQU (UK Quilters United) facebook group. I went browsing and ended up joining a mini quilt swap event. This group has been so supportive throughout the past nearly 2 years. Provided a smile when needed, allowed a rant when needed, and lots of advice about stitching. All in a safe, private space. I am going to retrieve some photos and tell you a bit more about this in the next blog piece. Which will be much sooner than 14 months!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we are again. 14 months since my last post. What on earth have I been doing? Stayed at home, tried to fit in daily walks. Shopping locally or online. What can my excuse be for being so quiet for so long? I blame concentrating on staying safe, waiting for vaccine appointments, and Facebook. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackstitches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}