{"id":1446,"date":"2011-06-19T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/in-progress\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:09:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:09:38","slug":"in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/19\/in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"In progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3573.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3573-300x225.jpg?resize=320%2C240\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been working on a new project for the past couple of days. It&#8217;s actually something I&#8217;ve been meaning to make for several months, but it was sort of on the back burner for one reason or another. I saw the most adorable pattern for a tea cozy and just had to make it! Here&#8217;s what I have so far:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">It doesn&#8217;t look like much yet, does it? \ud83d\ude09 But the two gold pieces are just waiting until I can get to the store to get a specialty thread for some decoration, and the whitish piece is the main part \u2014 but inside out for now. I&#8217;m also going to be on the hunt for some buttons to add, but that may have to wait until the season changes. <g> Stay tuned \u2026.<\/g><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on a new project for the past couple of days. It&#8217;s actually something I&#8217;ve been meaning to make for several months, but it was sort of on the back burner for one reason or another. I saw the most adorable pattern for a tea cozy and just had to make it! Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":734,"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":[273],"class_list":{"0":"post-1446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-tea-cozy","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_3573.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-nk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1444,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/25\/button-button-who-has\/","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":0},"title":"Button, button, who has &#8230;","author":"Sandy","date":"June 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2026 the buttons? Last week I showed you part of a tea cozy I was working on. Now I've finished it, except for the specialty buttons I need to add to make this look like a traditional gingerbread house. 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I don't have any photos to share, since I didn't get around to asking permission of the people in those photos, but rest assured that it was a wonderful several days. :)\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5362,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/06\/04\/bits-and-pieces\/","url_meta":{"origin":1446,"position":4},"title":"Bits and pieces","author":"Sandy","date":"June 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A while back, I explained that I was making yet another bag, this one called Travel Essentials. 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