{"id":1952,"date":"2017-01-03T23:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T23:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1952"},"modified":"2017-01-04T00:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:42:14","slug":"bubble-bubble-melt-muddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/?p=1952","title":{"rendered":"Bubble, Bubble, Melt &#038; Muddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1956 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed3-700x419.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed3-700x419.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed3-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed3-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed3.jpg 2046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having fun with my trash stash again. Who knew that ironing those woven, plastic, printed feed bags would produce such a yummy texture? Good buddy Linda Vola, whose horses and mule enjoyed what came in this bag, figured, as I did, that this would become a sturdy, colorful tote bag. Nope!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1955 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed2-700x593.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed2-700x593.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed2-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ironed2-768x650.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you try this, be sure to protect your iron and ironing surface with quality Teflon pressing sheets.<\/p>\n<p>I surmise from reading about classes taught by Linda Schmidt, that call for Tyvek and heat guns, that she demos similar techniques. Love the name of her website AND of this class:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.shortattentionspanquilting.com\/creating-with-cool-stuff.html<\/p>\n<p>Wish I could take it, and learn from all her trial and error and success. Hoping one of her disciples will clue me in a bit until I do get a chance. In the meantime,\u00a0I plod on, burning some spots, and falling back\u00a0to piecing with other trash&#8211;er, foil-lined or plasticized packaging. Here&#8217;s a very early draft of what&#8217;s in the works, incorporating way too much, and not enough:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1958 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/draft-c-483x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/draft-c-483x700.jpg 483w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/draft-c-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/draft-c-768x1114.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having fun with my trash stash again. Who knew that ironing those woven, plastic, printed feed bags would produce such a yummy texture? Good buddy Linda Vola, whose horses and mule enjoyed what came in this bag, figured, as I did, that this would become a sturdy, colorful tote bag. Nope! If you try this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilt","category-inspiration","category-recycled-art","category-unusual-materials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Ej5z-vu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eleanorlevie.com\/quilting-blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}