{"id":572,"date":"2012-11-19T22:16:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T22:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2013-03-12T18:44:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:44:24","slug":"quilt-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/19\/quilt-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quilt on my bed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_2631.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-591\" title=\"my quilt on my bed\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_2631.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the quilt which lives in my bedroom and is the first to be put on the bed if extra warmth is required, admittedly rarely because my Dearest likes a 14 tog duvet, while I\u2019d be happy with 4 togs (it\u2019s my age, I\u2019m told). In that single week in May we call Summer when the nights are warm and the duvet is cast off the bed, a sheet and this quilt suffice to sleep under. It is my most used quilt but my Dearest still gets told off for sitting on it \u201cen deshabille\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-659\" title=\"detail of my bedroom quilt1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt1.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The block is a simple collection of 16 x 2 inch squares put together randomly from scraps to create a 6 inch square, each block is interspersed with another block made of 4 quarter square triangles in ivory and burgundy, which are then placed with the colours positioned alternately in each row; so that each block of scraps appears to be set in the centre of a larger square of either ivory of burgundy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-660\" title=\"detail of my bedroom quilt 2\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt-2-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/detail-of-my-bedroom-quilt-2.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAgain I used some of my favourite tiny scraps, my 1960\u2019s dress fabric features again, probably only because it could be made from such tiny pieces, and all I had left were the tiniest scraps. In fact I tend to cut 2 inch squares if I can from any fabric scraps I have left, on the grounds that if I can\u2019t get a 2 inch square out of it, it probably isn\u2019t worth keeping. These are then stored in a tin for my next scrap quilt project. It is hand and machine quilted very simply in ivory thread, I didn\u2019t think it needed anything elaborate, scrap quilts don\u2019t, their beauty lies in the fabrics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_32572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-575\" title=\"The quilt on my bed\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_32572-252x300.jpg\" width=\"252\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_32572-252x300.jpg 252w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_32572-862x1024.jpg 862w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1-IMG_32572.jpg 2009w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 85vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quilt is titled Remembrance, the blocks were a \u201dBlock of the month\u201d challenge which I won sometime back in 1996; made into a quilt that year and exhibited the following year. I didn\u2019t attend the group meeting the night I won the blocks, I had been at a funeral that day, my cousin had lost a long fight with cancer. I thought of her often as I made this quilt, she was younger than me and the first person I had lost still in the flower of youth. Over the years this quilt has been packed away, or otherwise hidden from view, but whenever it surfaced my cousin was always my first thought when I saw it again, it might seem morbid but it isn\u2019t to me, I\u2019m happy to be reminded of her, she was a beautiful woman, and she lived her life. My memories of her are happy ones.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my Dearest likes a 14 tog duvet, while I\u2019d be happy with 4 togs (it\u2019s my age, I\u2019m told). In that single week in May we call Summer when the nights are warm and the duvet is cast off the bed, a sheet and this quilt suffice to sleep under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,3],"tags":[10,46,942,6,40,945,47,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}