{"id":1700,"date":"2014-03-28T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2014-03-28T06:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:00:06","slug":"7-tips-for-beginning-quilters-from-laura-nownes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/7-tips-for-beginning-quilters-from-laura-nownes\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Tips For Beginning Quilters From Laura Nownes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Laura Nownes, <a title=\"Get To Know Our Featured Artists: Diana McClun and Laura Nownes\" href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/get-to-know-our-featured-artists-diana-mcclun-and-laura-nownes\/\">Featured Artist for Road 2014 <\/a>along with Diana McClun, loves to teach and encourage beginner quilters.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/get-to-know-our-featured-artists-diana-mcclun-and-laura-nownes\/attachment\/laura\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1690\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1690\" alt=\"Laura\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laura.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Here are Laura&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>7 Tips for Beginning Quilters<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>1) Recognize your passion for quilting and go with it. Doors will open for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2) Practice. Start with a fabric you love and keep your project simple.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/get-to-know-our-featured-artists-diana-mcclun-and-laura-nownes\/attachment\/_i4c3819\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1689\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1689\" alt=\"_i4c3819\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3819.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>3) There is something for everyone in quilt making. Find what you like best and perfect it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4) Just start. Get rid of your fears and begin.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/get-to-know-our-featured-artists-diana-mcclun-and-laura-nownes\/attachment\/_i4c3804_copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1684\" alt=\"_i4c3804_copy\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/i4c3804_copy.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>5) Don\u2019t worry about perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>6) Support your local quilt shop. Take classes and keep learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>7) Join a local quilt guild. Make new friends who share your love of quilting. They are a great resource.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Which tip did you find most helpful?<\/p>\n\n]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1690,"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":[22,32],"tags":[667],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-road-to-california","tag-learn-to-quilt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Laura.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}