{"id":3810,"date":"2019-04-07T08:42:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2019-04-07T08:42:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T15:42:44","slug":"hummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/07\/hummer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummer!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Oops! It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything here, but time has just slipped by. I’m still working on a Christmas project with embroidered blocks from the\u00a0San Francisco Stitch Company<\/a>, part of which project you can see here.<\/p>\n

In addition, I’m also knitting a cardigan to use during summers in our overly-cooled public spaces here in the Las Vegas area. It does seem ridiculous to need a sweater or light jacket in the summer, but that’s how it is. At any rate, I haven’t yet finished enough of the sweater to show.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I’ve saved what is perhaps the most exciting bit of news for last. \ud83d\ude09 I recently hung up a hummingbird feeder outside the window of my sewing room. I could tell that the hummingbirds were using it, as the level of the liquid was going down. However, I didn’t ever see the birds themselves — until this morning! This little guy (gal?) helped himself to a little refreshment while I was watching, much to my delight.<\/p>\n

Our local guild will be having its annual quilt show in a few days, so my time for the next week will be rather limited. I can’t wait to see what beautiful things our members have made!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oops! It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted anything here, but time has just slipped by. I’m still working on a Christmas project with embroidered blocks from the\u00a0San Francisco Stitch Company, part of which project you can see here. In addition, I’m also knitting a cardigan to use during summers in our overly-cooled public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3811,"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":[202,242,193,48,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-3810","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-embroidery","8":"category-free-motion","9":"category-quilting","10":"tag-bernina","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-embroidery","13":"tag-freemotion","14":"tag-knitting","15":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_0081.jpg?fit=954%2C1280&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-hummer","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3680,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/a-reveal\/","url_meta":{"origin":3810,"position":0},"title":"A reveal","author":"Sandy","date":"December 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that the holiday party for our quilt group is over, I can show the things I made for our gift exchange. 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