{"id":1950,"date":"2015-01-25T11:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=1950"},"modified":"2015-01-25T11:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T19:53:20","slug":"chalk-it-up-to-a-learning-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/25\/chalk-it-up-to-a-learning-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Chalk it up to a learning experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0315\"<\/a>First of all, let me stress that the class I took last Saturday<\/a> was excellent, and Sandra Bruce<\/a> is a very good teacher. I love taking classes, and I always learn something in each one. This one taught me that the technique we were attempting\u00a0just isn’t for me. Sad but true. My tomato pin cushion with strawberry attached is bad enough\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a bit lumpy and jagged. But the rest is even worse! That yellow thing standing behind the pin cushion was supposed to be a spool of thread, but it looks like someone must have melted it somehow. LOL! And those yellow and green stripes behind were supposed to look like bolts of fabric. Yeah, right. \ud83d\ude09 Oh well\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a learning experience, as I said, and one I don’t regret. If we don’t try new things, we don’t get to experience the joy of finding the ones we love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, let me stress that the class I took last Saturday was excellent, and Sandra Bruce is a very good teacher. I love taking classes, and I always learn something in each one. This one taught me that the technique we were attempting\u00a0just isn’t for me. Sad but true. 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