{"id":2371,"date":"2015-09-25T10:47:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2015-09-25T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:47:22","slug":"road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/road-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_0855\"<\/a>Last summer, the San Francisco Stitch Company<\/a> posted weekly machine embroidery blocks. I downloaded each one and made it, thinking that the blocks would be good practice for me. Who knew the blocks would\u00a0also be so cute? \ud83d\ude42 I had to put the finished top aside for a time while I worked on the top for ‘Tis the Season (now waiting to be sandwiched!), but I finished the quilt last night. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last summer, the San Francisco Stitch Company posted weekly machine embroidery blocks. I downloaded each one and made it, thinking that the blocks would be good practice for me. Who knew the blocks would\u00a0also be so cute? \ud83d\ude42 I had to put the finished top aside for a time while I worked on the top […]<\/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":[301,5,299],"tags":[193,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-2371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-quilting","9":"tag-embroidery","10":"tag-freemotion","11":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Cf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3826,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/two-gifts-finished\/","url_meta":{"origin":2371,"position":0},"title":"Two gifts finished!","author":"Sandy","date":"April 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Some time back, I posted a few pictures of some embroidered blocks from San Francisco Stitch Co. 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