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Before the holidays, I’d meant to make some very small Christmas stockings to hold little things, but then I got the flu. Oh well. I’ve finished three of them now, with a few left to finish before next Christmas. They’re about 9 3\/4″ tall, with the patchwork made of 1″ squares. The next batch will be of slightly different colors; making a strip set actually gives enough for three stockings.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before the holidays, I’d meant to make some very small Christmas stockings to hold little things, but then I got the flu. Oh well. I’ve finished three of them now, with a few left to finish before next Christmas. They’re about 9 3\/4″ tall, with the patchwork made of 1″ squares. The next batch will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":932,"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":[3],"tags":[266,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-1568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-christmas-stockings","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2539.jpg?fit=609%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-pi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1560,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/09\/more-stockings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1568,"position":0},"title":"More stockings","author":"Sandy","date":"February 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"My goodness! 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