{"id":485,"date":"2021-02-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-10-29T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T14:53:06","slug":"patchwork-ffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/04\/patchwork-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork: FFS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/die-kaputte-linke-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Incident<\/a>, I was experimenting with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heideradieschen.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/first-finished-object-of-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\">visible seam allowances<\/a> and a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heideradieschen.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/finished-object-bear-cushion.html\" target=\"_blank\">patchwork alphabet<\/a> in paper-pieced half-inch hexagons. This led to a quilt inspired by The First Lockdown; I finished the top in the end of April&#8230;and then it sat for a few months.  Tiny stitching by hand was still too painful in when I tried in October; I tried again last month and it was okay. My fingers still don&#8217;t work right and I can only work for short periods of time, but I have finally finished <strong>The 2020 Quilt<\/strong>. FFS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"483\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS1-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS1-768x371.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><strong>The 2020 Quilt.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s not finished until it has a label!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS_label.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS_label.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS_label-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FFS_label-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption><strong>The 2020 Quilt<\/strong>, backside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The edge is finished with a binding method I call <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/heideradieschen.blogspot.com\/2017\/06\/mini-hexagons-10-finished.html\" target=\"_blank\">SHOFS<\/a> (See! Hexagons On the Flip Side!) because nobody has told me I can&#8217;t. When I learned this method three years, ago, I didn&#8217;t realize how much it requires bending the fingers on your non-dominant hand&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The 2020 Quilt<\/strong> measures approximately 14-3\/4&#8243; by 6-1\/2&#8243; and can be yours for 75\u20ac plus actual shipping costs. It is hand-stitched, machine-quilted, and may contain cat hair. Leave a comment with a valid e-mail address if interested!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/F.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/F.jpg 847w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/F-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/F-768x907.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><figcaption><strong>The 2020 Quilt<\/strong>, detail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Finished Object of 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[48,49,27],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-hexagon","tag-quilt","tag-stitching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}