{"id":5191,"date":"2023-11-12T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2023-11-12T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T23:33:41","slug":"quick-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/11\/12\/quick-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Deep<\/a>When I was in Houston this year, there was a stand selling all sorts of things to embroider, including plush golf towels. When I noticed that there were purple towels, I had to buy one for my husband. Today I added a little motif and his monogram. What made the embroidery really stand out was the wonderful knockdown stitch capability in the Embrilliance software I use. That knockdown stitch flattens the pile of the towel so that the motif doesn’t sink down into it. Needless to say, my husband was surprised and delighted! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in Houston this year, there was a stand selling all sorts of things to embroider, including plush golf towels. When I noticed that there were purple towels, I had to buy one for my husband. Today I added a little motif and his monogram. What made the embroidery really stand out was […]<\/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":[193],"class_list":{"0":"post-5191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-embroidery","7":"tag-embroidery","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1lJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3606,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/kitchen-towels-and-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":5191,"position":0},"title":"Kitchen towels and #4","author":"Sandy","date":"October 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I've had a couple of towels hanging around for some time; the designs I'd originally planned to put on them just weren't exciting me any longer. 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