{"id":5184,"date":"2023-11-06T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2023-11-06T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:53:32","slug":"a-quick-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/11\/06\/a-quick-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"A quick gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>I recently stitched up this cute set that I’ll be gifting in the coming holiday season. The designs came from Embroidery Library<\/a>. My Bernina made short work of that!<\/p>\n

The flap of the scissor case is actually freestanding lace and is hand stitched onto the top of the case. The only handwork necessary for the pin cushion was to make what had been a flat embroidery project into a dimensional cushion by hand stitching five small seams. Easy peasy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently stitched up this cute set that I’ll be gifting in the coming holiday season. The designs came from Embroidery Library. My Bernina made short work of that! The flap of the scissor case is actually freestanding lace and is hand stitched onto the top of the case. The only handwork necessary for the […]<\/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":[202,193,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-5184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-bernina","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-fsl","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1lC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3481,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/belated-post\/","url_meta":{"origin":5184,"position":0},"title":"Belated post","author":"Sandy","date":"July 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This couldn't be posted back in March, when I made the cushion, simply because it was a gift that was only given this week. 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