{"id":66,"date":"2012-09-28T22:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:22:31","slug":"union-jacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/union-jacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Jacks"},"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>Union flag<br \/>\nAnother year, another challenge, as a long-standing member of my quilting group I do try to rise to the annual challenge, but a couple of years ago I was stuck for an idea, we had to use flowery fabric, and I didn&#8217;t have much time, so what to make? Thumbing through magazines looking for inspiration I came across several Union flag cushions, I\u2019d also seen them in fancy interiors shops, I\u2019d picked up and put down with a gasp examples at exorbitant prices. Then I saw in a magazine, a pastel shaded version, in pretty Liberty prints, and knew that I could produce something similar at a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_2696-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67\" title=\"challenge entry, 2010, a Liberty print union flag\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_2696-001-1024x583.jpg\" alt=\"my entry for challenge 2010,\" width=\"700\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_2696-001-1024x583.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_2696-001-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my stash was the red and cream, both Liberty fabric scraps, and the navy, a 1980\u2019s Laura Ashley dress, My sister reminds me again we had one each of these too, and when she\u2019d worn hers out I gave her mine, which clearly didn&#8217;t get worn out before it was retired to my fabric stash. I can\u2019t find a picture of the dress but I guess if you were around in the 80\u2019s you\u2019d remember those dresses, huge mutton leg sleeves, drop waist, voluminous skirts,( think a newly married Princess Diana). Needless to say\u2026.. There is enough left to make something else as well, and I already have an idea.<\/p>\n<p>So where to find a pattern? I could have spent hours searching the internet for a pattern but fortunately and coincidentally on Armed Forces Day there was a pull out supplement in the newspaper; an advert on the back page pictured half a union flag which was just the right size, so I traced and reversed it to create a sectional pattern to work from. The red diagonal stripe is appliqu\u00e9d onto the white, the rest of the pattern is pieced.<\/p>\n<p>Union flags II<br \/>\nJust before Christmas 2011 my stepdaughter asked me to help her make a gift for a friend who loves the Union Jack; she wanted me to help her make a cushion like mine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-DSC002223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-170\" title=\"Xmas gift\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-DSC002223-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-DSC002223-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-DSC002223-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-DSC002223.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Christmas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Happy to encourage creativity in others I was pleased to assist, this time we bought fabrics, and I amended my technique to simplify the pattern, using more appliqu\u00e9 rather than piecing. The diagonals are all appliqu\u00e9d on this cushion. The white fabric was lined to prevent the blue showing through.<\/p>\n<p>We were very pleased with the result; I hope her friend was too.<\/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> The red diagonal stripe is appliqu\u00e9d onto the white, the rest of the pattern is pieced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86,63,11,5,3],"tags":[80,964,130,131,132,128,959,953,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"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=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}