{"id":3826,"date":"2019-04-23T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2019-04-23T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T17:28:35","slug":"two-gifts-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/two-gifts-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Two gifts finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Some time back, I posted a few pictures of some embroidered blocks from San Francisco Stitch Co<\/a>. I was making two sets of the larger (4″) blocks and one set of the 2″ blocks to use in three small quilts. The 2″ blocks are now a quilt top <\/em>(not pictured here), but I haven’t yet sandwiched and quilted it. However, last night I finished stitching the labels onto the other two quilts, made from the larger sets of blocks.<\/p>\n

I kept the quilting simple to focus attention on the embroidery, using ruler work to make lots of straight lines. Now I have to decide whether to give the quilts as Christmas gifts or whether to give them early for maximum seasonal use. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some time back, I posted a few pictures of some embroidered blocks from San Francisco Stitch Co. I was making two sets of the larger (4″) blocks and one set of the 2″ blocks to use in three small quilts. The 2″ blocks are now a quilt top (not pictured here), but I haven’t yet […]<\/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":[242,193,48,2,311],"class_list":{"0":"post-3826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"category-free-motion","8":"category-quilting","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-embroidery","11":"tag-freemotion","12":"tag-quilting","13":"tag-ruler-work","14":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-ZI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4890,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/20\/win-a-few-lose-a-few\/","url_meta":{"origin":3826,"position":0},"title":"Win a few, lose a few …","author":"Sandy","date":"November 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Time has slipped past me while playing with our new dog and having a fun trip to the Houston show, but I have two new quilts to post here, neither of which is my usual \"stuff\". 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