{"id":566,"date":"2013-02-03T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2013-06-19T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:05:39","slug":"lucky-stars-bom-practice-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/lucky-stars-bom-practice-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Stars BOM: Practice Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a bit slow to start but here&#8217;s my first block for the <a title=\"Lucky Stars BOM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dontcallmebetsy.com\/p\/lucky-stars-bom.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lucky Stars Block of the Month<\/a> with Elizabeth Dackson of <a title=\"Don't Call Me Betsy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dontcallmebetsy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Call Me Betsy<\/a>. This is\u00a0just\u00a0the practice block released back at the end of December and was my first attempt at foundation paper piecing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/luckystarsbom-practice-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[566]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"single-img\" alt=\"Lucky Stars BOM - Practice Block\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/luckystarsbom-practice-1-600x600.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;m really loving this technique! I had a vague understanding of how it worked but had never seen it done. Someone posted a link to the video below in our Flickr discussion groups for the Lucky Stars BOM Club. 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So far I&#8217;m really loving this technique! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/lucky-stars-bom-practice-block\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lucky Stars BOM: Practice Block<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lucky-stars-bom","category-patchwork","tag-foundation-paper-piecing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lucky Stars BOM: Practice Block - Pesca Presents<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pescapresents.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/lucky-stars-bom-practice-block\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lucky Stars BOM: Practice Block - Pesca Presents\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve been a bit slow to start but here&#8217;s my first block for the Lucky Stars Block of the Month with Elizabeth Dackson of Don&#8217;t Call Me Betsy. 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