{"id":78,"date":"2012-09-30T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2013-03-26T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T20:29:00","slug":"saturday-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/30\/saturday-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday well spent"},"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>Sunday 30.09.2012<br \/>\nHow do you photograph a quilt properly without a quilt stand? One might well ask! It&#8217;s a conundrum we were faced with on Saturday. Having decided that I needed to have good, well lit, clear photos of my quilts and having tried to take photos in the house, on the bed, I decided that I needed to take the quilts outside and hang them properly, in daylight.<br \/>\nBut hang them on what? After a very frustrating morning trying various Heath Robinson contraptions we settled on a pair of step ladders, each with an extending arm (wooden pole) gaffer taped in place and drilled to take a cable tie, supporting two pieces of wooden dowel (broom handle), joined by a piece of plastic water pipe. This particular solution took one trip to B&amp;Q and several trips to raid Dad&#8217;s garage and cost in total, not counting the shoe leather or diesel, the princely sum of \u00a32.09. Compared to \u00a3150 to import a quilt stand from the USA, that&#8217;s a bargain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_33504.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97\" title=\" single shape block in Autumn colours\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-IMG_33504.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK so the hanging pole sagged a bit in the middle, I think if I needed to do this again I&#8217;d need a metal tube to join the dowels, or alternatively borrow a quilt stand&#8230;..hmm if only I had planned that in advance.<\/p>\n<p>The weather forecast was for sunshine, so thankfully it barely rained at all, only one quilt was rained on, Shhhh don&#8217;t tell my Mother it was one of her&#8217;s&#8230;(see &#8220;Golden wedding quilt&#8221;), we were exhausted by the end of the day, up and down the ladders, quilt up, quilt down, &#8220;don&#8217;t let it touch the muddy floor!&#8221; After all that effort you would think we would be pleased with the result, but no, my Dearest now decided to go all Arty Photographer on me and declared that none of the shots we had were any good, the lighting wasn&#8217;t right and they&#8217;d all need to be done again, on the bed with different lighting.<br \/>\nNuts to that!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m so glad we didn&#8217;t leave the photography till today, because it has rained&#8230; and rained&#8230; and rained&#8230; and rained, the garden is awash, and the weather forecast is for more rain, wind and snow, in October.<\/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>OK so the hanging pole sagged a bit in the middle, I think if I needed to do this again I&#8217;d need a metal tube to join the dowels, or alternatively borrow a quilt stand&#8230;..hmm if only I had planned that in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[149,150,148,942,147,146,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}