{"id":1477,"date":"2026-11-05T03:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:29:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:29:43","slug":"how-to-make-a-commonwealth-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"How to make a Commonwealth Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?attachment_id=1478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1478\" src=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm-1024x653.png 1024w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm-768x490.png 768w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm-1536x980.png 1536w, https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-05-at-2.18.53-pm.png 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A poem of mine called &#8220;Stitched with its colour&#8221; has been included in The Commonwealth Foundation\u2019s &#8220;Creative Quilt&#8221;. All entries were written in response to the word <em>Thread\u00a0<\/em>and feature poems, stories, images, songs and films from across the Commonwealth.\u00a0 You can check out the whole quilt (and spend hours!) by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthfoundation.com\/commonwealth-quilt\/?intro\">https:\/\/commonwealthfoundation.com\/commonwealth-quilt\/?intro<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or you can go directly to my piece here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YvaaiT9d8H\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthfoundation.com\/commonwealth-quilt\/stitched-with-its-colour\/\">Stitched with its colour<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cStitched with its colour\u201d \u2014 Commonwealth Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/commonwealthfoundation.com\/commonwealth-quilt\/stitched-with-its-colour\/embed\/#?secret=BYYiZs4QdG#?secret=YvaaiT9d8H\" data-secret=\"YvaaiT9d8H\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem of mine called &#8220;Stitched with its colour&#8221; has been included in The Commonwealth Foundation\u2019s &#8220;Creative Quilt&#8221;. All entries were written in response to the word Thread\u00a0and feature poems, stories, images, songs and films from across the Commonwealth.\u00a0 You &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/?p=1477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1479,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magdalenaball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}