{"id":787,"date":"2009-02-15T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T06:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=787"},"modified":"2024-11-20T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T19:53:31","slug":"thing-15-frederick-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/15\/thing-15-frederick-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has tutorials on just the kinds of things I like to make. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/catquilt\" target=\"_blank\">This time it&#8217;s the cat quilt.<\/a> My cat&#8217;s never seen a fish, and for some reason I thought sewing a circle would be hard after my lumpy catnip-toy experience, so I decided to be clever and do a children&#8217;s book cover. I suspect my cat at least saw a mouse when he was living under a porch before I took him home, so I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Frederick-Leo-Lionni\/dp\/3407730063\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Frederick<\/i><\/a>, the art for which lends itself very well to the appliqu\u00e9 technique used in the EMSL project. (I used the <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/2009\/02\/02\/thing-a-day-2\/\">catnip-toy<\/a> fabric for the back.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caitlinburke\/3288727555\/\" title=\"Thing 15: Frederick Quilt by caitlinburke, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3371\/3288727555_32f5a3b961_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Thing 15: Frederick Quilt\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caitlinburke\/3289540378\/\" title=\"Thing 15: Frederick Quilt - Back (Detail) by caitlinburke, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3458\/3289540378_62e7f1bc83_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Thing 15: Frederick Quilt - Back (Detail)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until I was actually sitting down at the sewing machine that I realized I&#8217;d set myself up for a crash course in sewing on a curve. I think I did OK, although I&#8217;m starting to see why quilters like having fancy anti-pucker features in their machines. And if my cat could just pull himself away from <a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/2009\/02\/08\/thing-a-day-8-cat-chaise-cushion\/\">the cat chaise<\/a>, we might see what he thinks of his new quilt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caitlinburke\/3286786666\/\" title=\"Princess by caitlinburke, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3471\/3289624088_824739166d_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" alt=\"Princess (landscape)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories has tutorials on just the kinds of things I like to make. This time it&#8217;s the cat quilt. My cat&#8217;s never seen a fish, and for some reason I thought sewing a circle would be hard after my lumpy catnip-toy experience, so I decided to be clever and do a children&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[85,214,492,728,802,992,1072],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty","category-thing-a-day","tag-applique","tag-cat","tag-frederick","tag-lotusbun","tag-mouse","tag-quilt","tag-sewing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-cH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}