{"id":534,"date":"2026-03-26T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/?p=534"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:18:19","slug":"dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/dragons","title":{"rendered":"Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-536 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-899x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Red, black and gold quilt with dragons\" width=\"529\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-899x1024.jpg 899w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-263x300.jpg 263w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-768x875.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-1348x1536.jpg 1348w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104437-1798x2048.jpg 1798w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started this quilt, oh, twenty years ago? That&#8217;s when I first designed it and picked up the fabric for it, but right around the time I finished the blocks with the dragons and the gold stars I got distracted by another shiny and stopped working on it.<\/p>\n<p>A few years later I picked it up and did some more work on it, which is when I discovered I was\u00a0<em>really<\/em> short on the red fabric and it was going to be tricky to pull the quilt together as originally designed. I thought I could do it, though, if I was really careful.<\/p>\n<p>I got much of it sewn together that time &#8212; sort of the core bits &#8212; everything but the last rows on each side. Then another distraction came along.<\/p>\n<p>I started a Patreon sometime after that and one of the patron tiers is called &#8216;Dragons&#8217; and the one person who supports me at that level loves dragons. It had always been in the back of my mind that if I finished this I could send it to her and she&#8217;d like it, but it still stayed on the back burner until last month.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled it out to finish it but, one miscut later I didn&#8217;t have enough of the red fabric to finish it as I&#8217;d originally intended so I had to improvise a little bit but I am very pleased with the end result.<\/p>\n<p>I shipped it off to my Dragon patron. It&#8217;s supposed to arrive at her house today. I hope she likes it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-535 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-1024x901.jpg\" alt=\"Red, black and gold quilt with Chinese dragons\" width=\"529\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-1024x901.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-300x264.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-768x676.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-1536x1352.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.jofigure.com\/quilts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260323_104620-2048x1802.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this quilt, oh, twenty years ago? 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