{"id":313,"date":"2008-07-27T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-07-27T02:18:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-27T02:18:11","slug":"313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"stitching from the slow lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/slowvehicleturnoutsign.jpg\" alt=\"slowvehicleturnoutsign.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"218\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>this sign indicates both my past and my future. i&#8217;ve been relegated to the turnout lane the past 6 weeks. kitchen-sink weeks, i call them: crammed to the brim, leaving no time for stitching or blogging or anything else particularly creative. this-coming week, however, i look forward to days of slow, leisurely respite as i tuck away with cloth and creative writing . . .<\/p>\n<p>i needed to create a tree, but the pump hasn&#8217;t been primed in so very long, i angsted over how to do just that . . . <em>thinking<\/em> almost to the point of shutdown. recent occurrences out of her control have trimmed my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/sparklinglotusland.typepad.com\/nichobella\/\">acey&#8217;s<\/a> wings, leaving her to enjoy what i consider creativity at its best: limits. acey, of necessity, has worked only with materials within her reach, and with that in mind, i reached out this afternoon, picked up a piece of fabric that didn&#8217;t require traveling even so much as across the room, and began cutting what i hoped would eventually resemble tree branches. haven&#8217;t appliqued in years and was relieved to find that i don&#8217;t detest it nearly as much now as then.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/alisonsdeepdish072608.jpg\" alt=\"alisonsdeepdish072608.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"375\" height=\"338\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this sign indicates both my past and my future. i&#8217;ve been relegated to the turnout lane the past 6 weeks. kitchen-sink weeks, i call them: crammed to the brim, leaving no time for stitching or blogging or anything else particularly creative. this-coming week, however, i look forward to days of slow, leisurely respite as i [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alisons-deep-dish","category-my-dinner-party"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}