{"id":1489,"date":"2010-11-18T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/update\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T11:51:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:51:50","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/update\/","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yes, yes, I know I said it was finished. However, while I was in Houston a couple of weeks ago, I found these cute little balls of wool. They’re available in different sizes and in a rainbow of colors, but I bought small white ones for this. I think they make pretty good saguaro blossoms, don’t you?<\/p>\n

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I flattened them slightly with my fingers and held the new shape in place with yellow thread before stitching each one onto my saguaro. Now it’s really<\/i> finished. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, yes, I know I said it was finished. However, while I was in Houston a couple of weeks ago, I found these cute little balls of wool. They’re available in different sizes and in a rainbow of colors, but I bought small white ones for this. I think they make pretty good saguaro blossoms, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"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":[4],"tags":[285],"class_list":{"0":"post-1489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-applique","8":"tag-lonely-saguaro","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Lonely-Saguaro-detail.jpg?fit=640%2C537&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-update","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4844,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/16\/saguaro-quilt\/","url_meta":{"origin":1489,"position":0},"title":"Saguaro quilt","author":"Sandy","date":"August 16, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It's finished! 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