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I’m just starting another custom portrait quilt.\u00a0 My client sent me a photo of her parents with her grandson.\u00a0 I traced the three figures from the photo, then moved them all a bit closer to each other. \u00a0 I enlarged … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[14,37,67],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-quilts","category-on-my-design-wall","category-wip-wednesday","tag-art-quilt","tag-portrait-quilt","tag-wip-wednesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2SZWx-nV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1433,"url":"https:\/\/www.terryaskeartquilts.com\/Studio\/2013\/08\/28\/on-my-design-wall-2013-08-28\/","url_meta":{"origin":1483,"position":0},"title":"On my design wall – 2013.08.28","author":"TerryAske","date":"August 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been busy in the last week or so.\u00a0 I made a portable ironing mat for the top of my rolling, folding table, and I wrote a tutorial on how to create a portrait pattern from a photo. 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