{"id":1421,"date":"2011-12-10T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/pin-cushion\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:19:18","slug":"pin-cushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/pin-cushion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pin cushion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m a member of a French-speaking online quilting group, and the list mom suggested a little swap of pin cushions as a holiday activity. This is the little Santa (P\u00e8re No\u00ebl) pin cushion that I made and which is now on his way to a new home. \ud83d\ude42 <\/div>\n

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He’s made from wool felt with hand stitching to accent the mustache and beard and French knots to make the holly berries on Santa’s hood. I think he’s pretty cute and hope his new owner will agree. He’s stuffed with a layer of wool batting to keep his shape, but I also put in crushed walnut shells for weight and because I really like them in pin cushions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a member of a French-speaking online quilting group, and the list mom suggested a little swap of pin cushions as a holiday activity. This is the little Santa (P\u00e8re No\u00ebl) pin cushion that I made and which is now on his way to a new home. \ud83d\ude42  He’s made from wool felt with hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"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":[299],"tags":[207],"class_list":{"0":"post-1421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-pin-cushion","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Santa-pin-cushion.jpg?fit=505%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-mV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1469,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/adorable\/","url_meta":{"origin":1421,"position":0},"title":"Adorable!","author":"Sandy","date":"February 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last fall I saw some absolutely adorable pin cushions at the Houston show, but I remained strong and didn't buy the pattern to make one. 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