{"id":3314,"date":"2017-12-30T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2017-12-30T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T18:53:36","slug":"gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/30\/gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now that Christmas is behind us and all surprises are revealed, I can show what I made to give away this year. This first photo shows the five ornaments<\/a> I embroidered for our grandchildren. These are all free-standing lace, meaning that there isn’t any actual fabric; all of the colors are achieved with thread alone. Each of the ornaments has over 26,000 stitches!<\/p>\n

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These next two photos show a sort of “gag” gift for our daughters. Actually, the one on the left<\/a> is not a gag, but the one on the right<\/a> is. Each daughter had one of each of the two designs.<\/p>\n

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Finally, I embroidered a pair of frameable pieces for each daughter and her partner. These were supposed to be simple little projects, but the cost of custom matting and odd-sized frames made them rather a joke on me! LOL! Our elder daughter and her husband are educators, so these<\/a> were for them.<\/p>\n

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Our younger daughter and her partner are very interested in wine, so these<\/a> \u00a0pieces seemed appropriate for them.<\/p>\n

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Now that Christmas is behind us and all surprises are revealed, I can show what I made to give away this year. This first photo shows the five ornaments I embroidered for our grandchildren. These are all free-standing lace, meaning that there isn’t any actual fabric; all of the colors are achieved with thread alone. 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