{"id":2108,"date":"2015-06-10T17:27:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T00:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2015-06-10T17:27:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T00:27:24","slug":"gingerbread-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/10\/gingerbread-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread House"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gingerbread<\/a>I’m still very new at doing machine embroidery, but some months ago I bought a pattern for an adorable gingerbread house. It took me a while to begin working on it, but it’s finally finished. It’s anything but perfect, but I still think it’s cute. The various pieces started out nice and flat, but I had to dampen them to get the little “buttons” through the tiny “buttonholes” to\u00a0hold the whole thing together, and that undid the “flat” I’d started with. Oh well. I can live with it. \ud83d\ude09 Now to find a place to stash it until time to decorate for\u00a0Christmas!<\/p>\n

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I’m still very new at doing machine embroidery, but some months ago I bought a pattern for an adorable gingerbread house. It took me a while to begin working on it, but it’s finally finished. It’s anything but perfect, but I still think it’s cute. The various pieces started out nice and flat, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301],"tags":[242,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-2108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-christmas","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-y0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4633,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/fun-towel-embroidery\/","url_meta":{"origin":2108,"position":0},"title":"Fun towel embroidery","author":"Sandy","date":"December 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I ran across an adorable embroidery motif, and it was on sale; what was I to do? ;) I decided to put it onto a couple of kitchen towels, perfect for the season. 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