{"id":1105,"date":"2009-01-04T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2009-01-04T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T17:14:52","slug":"the-last-present-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/the-last-present-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"the last present is finished"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is another lap blanket for our cold house. This one is made of Ben’s old Pendleton<\/a> shirts- which, of course, I could never throw away. They are all wool.<\/p>\n

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When I pulled them out of the closet, there were 9 of them in 8 plaids. They were discarded because of moths and worn elbows and various other issues that I needed to be aware of while I cut out the pieces.<\/p>\n

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I was going to use a pieces of plain wool fabric for the back but couldn’t find anything in my stash that seemed like a good match. Instead, I used large pieces of what I had left- which was still quite a bit! Most of the big pieces were from the backs of the shirts and were in excellent condition.<\/p>\n

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It is a 3 layer quilt- I used an old wool blanket for a batting and it is very heavy. I’m not sure how functional it is going to be but we’ll see. I did the minimal quilting by hand. I sewed 2 of the labels into the corners of the back. I have 7 more and thought about sewing them randomly all over the back but I controlled myself.<\/p>\n

I made this quilt the same way I did this one<\/a>. I am going to do another post about how it all went together- I remembered to take the pictures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is another lap blanket for our cold house. This one is made of Ben’s old Pendleton shirts- which, of course, I could never throw away. They are all wool. When I pulled them out of the closet, there were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14],"tags":[134,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}