{"id":5108,"date":"2023-08-29T07:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2023-08-29T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:28:04","slug":"in-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/29\/in-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"In pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Embroidered<\/a>In fifteen pieces, to be exact! \u00a0One of the pictured pieces is actually two identical ones, so that’s why it doesn’t look like fifteen. I counted up how many stitches went into making these pieces, and the total was almost 378,000! I used up an entire roll of water-soluble stabilizer, too. But my Bernina sailed through the work with nary a complaint!<\/p>\n

Now that all of the pieces are made, and assuming that I don’t have to remake any if the gremlins don’t come along and hide something from me as I go, I need to put the pieces together to make the building. It will be fiddly work, judging from past experience, so I probably won’t hurry. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In fifteen pieces, to be exact! \u00a0One of the pictured pieces is actually two identical ones, so that’s why it doesn’t look like fifteen. I counted up how many stitches went into making these pieces, and the total was almost 378,000! I used up an entire roll of water-soluble stabilizer, too. But my Bernina sailed […]<\/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-5108","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-1ko","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3377,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/15\/nativity-set\/","url_meta":{"origin":5108,"position":0},"title":"Nativity set","author":"Sandy","date":"March 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the things I'm working on while pondering which motifs to use in quilting my latest quilt has been the embroidered nativity set below (click on the photo to enlarge it, as always). 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