{"id":1561,"date":"2010-02-05T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/i-gave-in\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:46:51","slug":"i-gave-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/05\/i-gave-in\/","title":{"rendered":"I gave in &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"260\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595-300x260.jpg?resize=300%2C260\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; to temptation and finished my armchair caddy instead of waiting until March for the next lesson. <g> I&#8217;m not unhappy with how it turned out, though I know there are things that could have been better. Here&#8217;s the outside view, with the little handle for carrying.&nbsp;<\/g><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2594.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"243\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2594-243x300.jpg?resize=243%2C300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">And here&#8217;s the inside, with the two embellished parts forming the nice big pockets and a pin cushion in the center.&nbsp; I think this is going to be very useful! \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to temptation and finished my armchair caddy instead of waiting until March for the next lesson. I&#8217;m not unhappy with how it turned out, though I know there are things that could have been better. Here&#8217;s the outside view, with the little handle for carrying.&nbsp; And here&#8217;s the inside, with the two embellished parts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922,"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":[1],"tags":[199,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-1561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-bag","9":"tag-embellishing","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg?fit=1024%2C888&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-pb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1441,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/19\/and-another-hat\/","url_meta":{"origin":1561,"position":0},"title":"And another hat","author":"Sandy","date":"July 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my daughters liked my new hat so much that I made her one of her own to wear to her children's ball games. 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