{"id":182,"date":"2012-10-01T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2016-04-18T18:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:32:05","slug":"week-of-october-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/week-of-october-1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of October 1, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img_caption left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/images\/stories\/Fall\/fall%20144.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"noindent\">It is officially fall- the weather is cool, nights are long, and the leaves are falling in golden drifts off of the trees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Around this time of year in mid-coast Maine one sees a LOT of large pumpkins. That is because of Pumpkinfest, which is this coming weekend. Pumpkinfest started out as a fun local thing, and has become a rather large event. There are all kinds of different things going on- from the pumpkins that are decorated on Maine street, to the all important pumpkin regatta- yes, you can have a pumpkin boat, to pumpkin chunking, a pumpkin drop, pumpkin derbies for kids, and of course, pie eating contests!<\/p>\n<p>Pumpkinfest is an offical event, and the weighing is done by the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth- a world wide organization dedicated to the growth of large squash.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s winner is Charlie Lopresti of Buxton, Maine. His pumpkin topped out at 1332.0 pounds! That is 604.19 Kg. That is one big puppy!<\/p>\n<p>You can read about last year&#8217;s Pumpkinfest in:<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">Sewing Notions, Maine Musings, Pumpkinfest.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to keep up with the latest news and events see:<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">http:\/\/www.damariscottapumpkinfest.com\/<\/p>\n<p>We will be out and about this week taking pics as things unfold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/images\/stories\/logo\/dragonfly%20hor.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"center\"><b>POSTCARDS FROM AWAY<\/b><br \/>\nWe received pictures from three people this week-<br \/>\nit is always exciting to see what people do with their fabric!<\/p>\n<p>Barbara, from Classic Attic Vintage Furniture<br \/>\nsent a picture of a chair she had redone, using the<br \/>\ntan Paris Postcard fabric.<br \/>\nSee it in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/postcards-from-professionals\">Postcards from Professionals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\">And in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/postcards\">Postcards from Away<\/a><br \/>\nsee Sabina&#8217;s latest creation-<br \/>\na fall jacket with a twist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is officially fall- the weather is cool, nights are long, and the leaves are falling in golden drifts off of the trees. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickhousefabrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}