{"id":2342,"date":"2015-09-18T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2015-09-18T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:09:49","slug":"finished-and-a-little-frustrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/finished-and-a-little-frustrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished \u2014 and a little frustrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0836\"<\/a>Two days ago I finished the embroidery on ‘Tis the Season. So why am I frustrated?\u00a0Because I don’t have any way to take a photo of the completed top! LOL! My house is fairly small, and without a hanging sleeve on a finished quilt, I simply have nowhere to lay out a top\u00a0this large (about 65″ x 65″) for a photo. There’s the floor, of course, if I move some furniture; but then I can’t get far enough away to get a good shot of the entire thing. Instead, then, here’s a picture of Bisou, who thinks this dilemma requires\u00a0a nap. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Quilting ‘Tis the Season will take some time, and I won’t be able\u00a0to begin until a couple of other things are out of the way, but stay tuned ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two days ago I finished the embroidery on ‘Tis the Season. So why am I frustrated?\u00a0Because I don’t have any way to take a photo of the completed top! LOL! My house is fairly small, and without a hanging sleeve on a finished quilt, I simply have nowhere to lay out a top\u00a0this large (about […]<\/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":[301,303],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-family","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-BM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2371,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/road-trip\/","url_meta":{"origin":2342,"position":0},"title":"Road Trip!","author":"Sandy","date":"September 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Last summer, the San Francisco Stitch Company posted weekly machine embroidery blocks. 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