we thought we were moving before christmas, so all the fabric, floss, needles, fabric scissors, irons are now residing in one of the gagillion boxes somewhere in the overstuffed garage. i found a snippet of cream-colored fabric with white hearts that’s not too chirpy, and cut (more like hacked<\/em>, really, given that those scissors have cut everything except<\/em> fabric), and using ye-olde-fingerpressing technique, tucked under the edges. then, after much fussing and grumbling about how uncomfortable it is for me working with big pieces like a completed-if-tattered quilt, that one rectangle of not-too-chirpy fabric is in place, covering one of the bald spots and extending this quilt’s life well into future generations of little jeannes.<\/br><\/p>\n <\/br><\/p>\n my plan (if you can call it that – it just occurred to me as i melioration has begun – finally. not much to show, though, because, well, we’re moving, you see. that is, we might be moving – it all depends on when we will have our fill with the . . . well, never mind. we thought we were moving before christmas, so all the fabric, floss, needles, fabric […]<\/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":[42,41,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-melioration","category-mending","category-natural-curl","category-postcards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"011409meliorationbegins.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/011409meliorationbegins.jpg\")
<\/div>\ncut<\/del> hacked the snippet of not-too-chirpy fabric) is to patch\/cover\/conceal\/mend with various whiteish fabrics. 88 pieces, to be exact. same number of keys on a piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"