{"id":3606,"date":"2018-10-15T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2018-10-15T08:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T15:14:38","slug":"kitchen-towels-and-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/kitchen-towels-and-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen towels and #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve had a couple of towels hanging around for some time; the designs I’d originally planned to put on them just weren’t exciting me any longer. However, I had two other designs that I do like, so …. Lining up designs like these to get them straight can be pretty tricky, but a feature that I love on my Bernina, called Pinpoint Placement, makes it so<\/em><\/strong> easy to get things precisely where I want them.<\/p>\n

The design on the red towel is from Embroidery Online<\/a>, and the one on the blue towel is from Thelander Designs<\/a>. I really like the red one, but that blue one makes me giggle every time I read it! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve also finished making the fourth block in the San Francisco Stitch Company series. This one is a crow. Cute as he is, he hasn’t displaced the fox as my favorite of the four. Now to await their suggestions for finishing the blocks into a project — or will I do something else instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve had a couple of towels hanging around for some time; the designs I’d originally planned to put on them just weren’t exciting me any longer. However, I had two other designs that I do like, so …. Lining up designs like these to get them straight can be pretty tricky, but a feature that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3612,"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":[202,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-3606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"tag-bernina","9":"tag-embroidery","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0775-1.jpg?fit=1280%2C1232&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Wa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4633,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2021\/12\/03\/fun-towel-embroidery\/","url_meta":{"origin":3606,"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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