{"id":1475,"date":"2020-06-18T12:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/?p=1475"},"modified":"2020-06-18T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T11:53:13","slug":"ritas-wonderful-strippy-quilt-and-the-love-that-went-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/ritas-wonderful-strippy-quilt-and-the-love-that-went-into-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita&#8217;s wonderful &#8220;strippy&#8221; quilt &#8211; and the love that went into it"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Her quilts are always personally labelled<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Every now and again, we publish an example of interesting work undertaken by many of GUR&#8217;s wonderful customers, which they kindly send to us via our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gur.sewing.machines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This particular example features Rita Mills&#8217;s wonderful <em>&#8220;strippy quilt&#8221;<\/em> as she calls it, who she made it for, and how she makes her creations highly individual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our thanks to Rita for this deeply personal account&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I made this quilt on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/sewing-machines\/janome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janome sewing machine<\/a>\u00a0for my sister in law who was ill with cancer. Sadly she has since passed away, so this quilt will be passed down to her granddaughter.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I always label my quilts with the date and who it was made for. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I attended a quilting group and this took me many hours to make. I especially love the top panel as it makes me think of holidays, and my sister in law loved holidays. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The quilt is made with 100% cotton: I enjoyed making this as I knew she would appreciate the love with which it was made. She did! <\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Giving something away you have made is extra special because you are giving your time.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:rita.mills255@btinternet.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email Rita \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gur.sewing.machines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share YOUR wonderful sewing projects on our Facebook page \u00bb<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Telephone\u00a00121 359 5335 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/top-sewing-tips-that-you-might-just-find-to-be-really-useful\/info@gursewingmachines.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">email<\/a> GUR Sewing Machines now!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her quilts are always personally labelled Every now and again, we publish an example of interesting work undertaken by many of GUR&#8217;s wonderful customers, which they kindly send to us via our Facebook Page. This particular example features Rita Mills&#8217;s wonderful &#8220;strippy quilt&#8221; as she calls it, who she made it for, and how she [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,85],"tags":[61,102,87],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-janome","category-sewing-tutorial","tag-janome","tag-quilting-tips","tag-sewing-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gursewingmachines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}