{"id":3984,"date":"2023-07-08T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T01:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/?page_id=3984"},"modified":"2023-07-08T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T02:25:14","slug":"sweet-madame-blue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/my-quilts\/sweet-madame-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Madame Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>75&#8243;x75&#8243;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Designed around 8 hand-tatted lace doilies I purchased from an Etsy seller in Istanbul, the original design for this quilt featured floral designs, the long-tulip and  carnation, seen on Turkish pottery. It is constructed exclusively of Kaufman silk Radiance. The applique is all hand-stitched and turned edge. Quilting is hand-guided. All non-background fabrics were hand-dyed by me. The quilt features some embroidery, hand beading and a few crystals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of April 2023, the quilt is owned by the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, KY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230501_134016-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230501_134016-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"4000\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230501_134016-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/my-quilts\/sweet-madame-blue\/20230501_134016\/\" class=\"wp-image-4000\" 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75&#8243;x75&#8243; Designed around 8 hand-tatted lace doilies I purchased from an Etsy seller in Istanbul, the original design for this quilt featured floral designs, the long-tulip and carnation, seen on Turkish pottery. It is constructed exclusively of Kaufman silk Radiance. The applique is all hand-stitched and turned edge. Quilting is hand-guided. All non-background fabrics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3985,"parent":1344,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3984","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4009,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3984\/revisions\/4009"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainelyquiltsoflove.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}