{"id":15486,"date":"2026-06-03T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=15486"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:44:20","slug":"host-of-hearts-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2026\/06\/host-of-hearts-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"Host of Hearts Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember this? My three crewel-work patches, posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/finishing-stopping-going\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"13540\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Finishing, stopping, going<\/a> from March 24, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8199-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8199-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8199-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8199-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These three crewel blocks were contributed to a group project that I didn&#8217;t expect to be completed any time soon. To my delight, the project has been done and in the most beautiful way. Rose Arenstam (@rosecoloredquilts) is the genius who chose the backgrounds, organized the blocks, and quilted the whole thing. I didn&#8217;t think such disparate blocks could work, but they do with the quilting and the colorful sashing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The finished quilt, called Host of Hearts, is being raffled as a fundraiser for a nearby library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"852\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2-852x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2-852x1024.png 852w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2-250x300.png 250w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2-768x923.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2-1278x1536.png 1278w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_2.png 1556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1-768x1088.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1-1085x1536.png 1085w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot from Rose&#8217;s instagram, showing colors and quilting up close<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA-813x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA-813x1024.png 813w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA-238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA-768x968.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHearts_EA.png 954w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 813px) 100vw, 813px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">News flash in the Ellsworth American<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember this? My three crewel-work patches, posted in Finishing, stopping, going from March 24, 2024 These three crewel blocks were contributed to a group project that I didn&#8217;t expect to be completed any time&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quilting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HostofHeartsQuilt_1.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15487,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions\/15487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}