{"id":2470,"date":"2013-06-13T11:12:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:01:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:01:29","slug":"raising-the-roof-quilt-top-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2470","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Roof Quilt Top Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to show you the completed quilt top for Raising the Roof.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345 aligncenter\" title=\"raisingtheroofcomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisingfinished-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hard to believe but in just over 4 weeks, I was able to complete the whole thing, from cutting to dropping it off with Allison.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve decided on a classic feather motif to emphasis the tromple-l&#8217;oeil effect of the dark and light stars.  These photos are a bit blah &#8211; the quilt in person has a lot of depth and feels suitably scrappy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"raisingtheroofcomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisingfinished-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dark and light diagonal squares are really startling, too.  They seem to jump out at you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"raisingtheroofcomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisingfinished-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I made the pattern almost exactly as Carrie specified.  The only changes I made were to the corner blocks (I went with pieced quarter square triangles) and the inner border, where I went with a dark red stripe rather than pieced strips of light fabrics.  I think the dark anchors it more; the red stripe will also be used as the binding when I get it back from the long arm quilters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"raisingtheroofcomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisingfinished-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really like the vintage feel of this quilt and think that I&#8217;m going to be displaying it in our master bedroom, where the colours should go very well with the new look we&#8217;re (slowly) introducing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"raisingtheroofcomplete\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/raisingfinished-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to show you the completed quilt top for Raising the Roof. Hard to believe but in just over 4 weeks, I was able to complete the whole thing, from cutting to dropping it off with Allison. We&#8217;ve decided on a classic feather motif to emphasis the tromple-l&#8217;oeil effect of the dark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[191,204,192,202,203],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quilting-2","category-uncategorized","tag-carrie-nelson","tag-completed-quilt","tag-log-cabin","tag-pieced-quilt","tag-scrappy-quilt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}