{"id":2146,"date":"2015-07-04T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2015-07-04T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T22:13:25","slug":"variation-on-a-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/variation-on-a-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Variation on a theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Elephant<\/a>Those elephants I showed you about a week ago reminded me that I had a pattern for a pin cushion that I’d been planning to make. Elephants may never forget, but I do! LOL! Anyway, this pattern was for an elephant pin cushion\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a really<\/em> cute one. It was trickier to make than the others, both because it was smaller (smaller usually = more fiddly) and because it had more pieces. I stuffed it with some more of that lovely filling I’d used on the toys, but I also added some crushed walnut shells for extra weight and for their beneficial effect on pins.<\/p>\n

I have plenty of pin cushions, but I can’t seem to resist some of the cute ones that are available!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those elephants I showed you about a week ago reminded me that I had a pattern for a pin cushion that I’d been planning to make. Elephants may never forget, but I do! LOL! Anyway, this pattern was for an elephant pin cushion\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a really cute one. It was trickier to make than the others, both […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[207],"class_list":{"0":"post-2146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-pin-cushion","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-yC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1469,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/16\/adorable\/","url_meta":{"origin":2146,"position":0},"title":"Adorable!","author":"Sandy","date":"February 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Last fall I saw some absolutely adorable pin cushions at the Houston show, but I remained strong and didn't buy the pattern to make one. 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