{"id":1371,"date":"2012-11-16T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/a-gift\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:38:02","slug":"a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/16\/a-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A gift!"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was in Houston, I was able to hang out with some people I don’t normally have the opportunity to see. One of them, Sue, is from Michigan, and we get together each year in Houston. This year she brought me a beautiful machine-embroidered piece with a Christmas theme \u2014 and told me I had to quilt and finish it. LOL! I didn’t want to take anything away from her lovely embroidery, so I did some very simple feathers in the white border area and a few straight lines between rows of words just to hold everything together with the backing. Here’s the result:<\/p>\n

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This is going to look so<\/i> nice on my wall when I decorate for the holidays! Thanks, Sue! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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While I was in Houston, I was able to hang out with some people I don’t normally have the opportunity to see. One of them, Sue, is from Michigan, and we get together each year in Houston. This year she brought me a beautiful machine-embroidered piece with a Christmas theme \u2014 and told me I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[301],"tags":[193,226,48,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-1371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-feathers","10":"tag-freemotion","11":"tag-holiday","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_0051.jpg?fit=919%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-m7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1501,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/it-really-was-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":1371,"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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