{"id":1750,"date":"2008-10-24T15:10:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2008-10-24T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T13:15:50","slug":"my-secret-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/1750","title":{"rendered":"My Secret Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/2968247945\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3051\/2968247945_4b66a401a9.jpg\" width=\"455\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I started working on a secret project.&#160; My parents were coming over and I knew my mother would be celebrating her birthday while they were here.&#160; I wanted to make something special for her.&#160;&#160; So I got to work on a quilt I had been wanting to make that I thought she would like.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/2968247229\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3174\/2968247229_6aa8b6e164.jpg\" width=\"455\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has taken me a while as I do everything by hand\u2026 and between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1730\" target=\"_blank\">bedroom renovations<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1710\" target=\"_blank\">lack of immune system<\/a> I ended up getting behind.&#160;&#160; It wasn\u2019t finished when she arrived so I had to show it to her before her birthday so that I could finish it up while she was here.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36166632@N00\/2968245745\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Mom&#39;s Tea Quilt\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/3286\/2968245745_25951b401c.jpg\" width=\"455\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a hit!&#160; She loved it!&#160; Sometimes it\u2019s hard to tell with moms, because they\u2019d say they loved a lump of your poo if you handed it to them proudly\u2026 but I\u2019m pretty sure she really did like it.<\/p>\n<p>I took a load of pics the day before she left so that I could FINALLY write about it and be able to still look at it and show it off when I feel like it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been hard keeping this from her.&#160;&#160; Usually I tell her all about things I am making and show her photos along the way.&#160;&#160; Not this time though.&#160;&#160; I had to keep it totally secret which meant no photos on Flickr or Facebook, no talking about it on my blog\u2026 Ugh! It was torture!&#160;&#160; So many times she\u2019d message me on MSN during the day asking what I was up to and I had to make something up because I was sitting there sewing away.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, it\u2019s all done and I\u2019m really proud of it!<\/p>\n<p>If you are into quilting and would like to make it you can find the pattern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debbiemumm.com\/Projects\/Quilting\/2007\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I started working on a secret project.&#160; My parents were coming over and I knew my mother would be celebrating her birthday while they were here.&#160; I wanted to make something special for her.&#160;&#160; So I got to work on a quilt I had been wanting to make that I thought &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[203,55,51,244,77],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","tag-birthdays","tag-crafts","tag-mom","tag-parents","tag-quilting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}