{"id":1370,"date":"2012-11-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/getting-ready\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:38:20","slug":"getting-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/18\/getting-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy today! Christmas is sneaking up on me, so I&#8217;ve been baking and working on projects for the holidays today. One of the projects was to make some machine embroidered gift card holders from a CD I&#8217;d purchased a few months ago. The CD is from Dakota Collectibles and allows each of the holders to be made completely in the embroidery hoop. That <i>should<\/i> have allowed me to work on something else as the embroidery progressed, I thought, but that wasn&#8217;t the case. \ud83d\ude09 I had to watch carefully to stop the machine and cut the various jump stitches before they had so many stitches on top of them that cutting them became impossible. LOL! At any rate, I forgot to take pictures of the baking I did, but I did take a photo of the card holders.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0052.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0052-300x267.jpg?resize=320%2C285\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">They were really fun to make, but I do wish I&#8217;d had a smaller hoop so I hadn&#8217;t had to waste so much stabilizer. \ud83d\ude09 Still, I&#8217;m happy with them and may end up making more, if I have time. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been busy today! Christmas is sneaking up on me, so I&#8217;ve been baking and working on projects for the holidays today. One of the projects was to make some machine embroidered gift card holders from a CD I&#8217;d purchased a few months ago. The CD is from Dakota Collectibles and allows each of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301],"tags":[193,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-1370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-holiday","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0052.jpg?fit=640%2C570&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-m6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1501,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/it-really-was-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":1370,"position":0},"title":"It really *was* fun!","author":"Sandy","date":"September 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from the Clean & Sew I mentioned yesterday, and it was lots of fun! 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