{"id":22,"date":"2021-09-27T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-09-28T01:16:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T01:16:15","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/__trashed\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Crazy Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ever heard of a crazy quilt? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1014\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-1014x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-1014x1024.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-768x776.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-1520x1536.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/quilt-w-hand-1-2027x2048.jpg 2027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><figcaption><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">A block from an antique crazy quilt<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Crazy quilts were all the rage for young women in the late 1800&#8217;s. But they were quite controversial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because\u2014gasp\u2014they were not at all practical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, crazy quilts featured sumptuous materials like silk, satin and velvet. Not exactly affordable stuff, much less easy to care for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s enough, right there, to send any practical farm woman scampering for the latest log cabin quilt pattern and some good, practical calico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I think crazy quilts are a thing of beauty and a showing of great skill, the people&#8211;especially men&#8211;of the early 1900&#8217;s abhorred them, and jokes abounded at the idiocy of such an undertaking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7DE8F45C-C771-46ED-910F-9A22B8313BC9_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7DE8F45C-C771-46ED-910F-9A22B8313BC9_1_201_a.jpeg 975w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7DE8F45C-C771-46ED-910F-9A22B8313BC9_1_201_a-300x244.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7DE8F45C-C771-46ED-910F-9A22B8313BC9_1_201_a-768x625.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Newspaper articles abound on the lunacy of the crazy quilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s why I chose to feature this art form in my historical novel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard of a crazy quilt? Crazy quilts were all the rage for young women in the late 1800&#8217;s. But they were quite controversial. Because\u2014gasp\u2014they were not at all practical. In fact, crazy quilts featured sumptuous materials like silk, satin and velvet. Not exactly affordable stuff, much less easy to care for. That&#8217;s enough, right &#8230; <a title=\"Beware the Crazy Quilt\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/2021\/09\/27\/__trashed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beware the Crazy Quilt\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresawells.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}