{"id":1566,"date":"2010-01-23T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T19:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/embellishing-part-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:38:29","slug":"embellishing-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/23\/embellishing-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Embellishing, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m making a little progress on this embellishing thing. \ud83d\ude09 I actually thought I was finished with this section, until I realized that the little French knots I&#8217;d used in the white section at the top simply don&#8217;t show.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2550.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_&quot;blank&quot;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"203\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2550-300x203.jpg?resize=300%2C203\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m going to need to do something more there, and I may also need to do something more in one or two other spots. While I think about it, though, I&#8217;m starting the second section.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making a little progress on this embellishing thing. \ud83d\ude09 I actually thought I was finished with this section, until I realized that the little French knots I&#8217;d used in the white section at the top simply don&#8217;t show. I&#8217;m going to need to do something more there, and I may also need to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":930,"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":[],"tags":[297,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-1566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-armchair-caddy","8":"tag-embellishing","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2550.jpg?fit=1024%2C693&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1562,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/more-embellishing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1566,"position":0},"title":"More embellishing","author":"Sandy","date":"February 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I think I can finally call this finished! 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I admire lots of embellished quilts -- especially crazy quilts -- but I'm not comfortable doing embellishing myself. 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I say the class was fun, but the technique was definitely not something I enjoyed, unfortunately. I'm glad I tried it, but I won't be doing it again, as far as I can tell. ;)Anyway,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Appliqu\u00e9&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Appliqu\u00e9","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/applique\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lonely-Saguaro.jpg?fit=790%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lonely-Saguaro.jpg?fit=790%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lonely-Saguaro.jpg?fit=790%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lonely-Saguaro.jpg?fit=790%2C1024&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1542,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/03\/28\/scissors-keeper\/","url_meta":{"origin":1566,"position":3},"title":"Scissors keeper","author":"Sandy","date":"March 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Finished! 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I'm not unhappy with how it turned out, though I know there are things that could have been better. Here's the outside view, with the little handle for carrying.\u00a0And here's the inside, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"bag\"","block_context":{"text":"bag","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/tag\/bag\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg?fit=1024%2C888&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg?fit=1024%2C888&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg?fit=1024%2C888&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/IMG_2595.jpg?fit=1024%2C888&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1565,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/24\/oatmeal-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":1566,"position":5},"title":"Oatmeal cookies","author":"Sandy","date":"January 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A friend of mine shared a recipe for oatmeal cookies, so I took some time off from embellishing today to bake them. 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