{"id":4911,"date":"2022-12-23T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2022-12-23T17:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T01:46:40","slug":"the-snow-baron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/23\/the-snow-baron\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snow Baron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snowy<\/a>A couple of weeks ago, I posted an embroidered block<\/a> that was the beginning of a short series put out by San Francisco Stitch Company<\/a>. Today the second block was released, the Snow Baron, a snowy owl at night. Given the state of my back at the moment, I wasn’t sure I could get to this, but my husband was really sweet and helped me with the heavy part of setting up my Bernina 790+ for embroidery — thus giving me something fun to do. And this is the result! There will be two more blocks at some point this winter, followed by some designs for the setting pieces. I’m really looking forward to all of that, as I’ve done a few other designs from this same place and have liked all of them. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago, I posted an embroidered block that was the beginning of a short series put out by San Francisco Stitch Company. Today the second block was released, the Snow Baron, a snowy owl at night. Given the state of my back at the moment, I wasn’t sure I could get to […]<\/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],"tags":[202,193],"class_list":{"0":"post-4911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1hd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4902,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/10\/king-of-the-ice\/","url_meta":{"origin":4911,"position":0},"title":"King of the Ice","author":"Sandy","date":"December 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I've posted before about designs from San Francisco Stitch Co. 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