{"id":5219,"date":"2023-12-17T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:12:28","slug":"ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/12\/17\/ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I had an email from Thelander Designs<\/a> — a perfectly ordinary email to advertise a sale on some of their embroidery designs. A quick glance and I’ll trash it, right? Oops. There was a design for an ornament for firefighters, and I just had<\/em> to get it, since one of our grandsons is a firefighter. Of course!<\/p>\n

But then it mushroomed. Since I was going to make this for him, why not make more of them for his squad? There couldn’t be more than half a dozen squad members, right? So I decided that I could streamline the process by making three of them more or less at once by using a bigger hoop, and I texted our grandson to get an exact number of people on his squad, without telling him why. I suspect he thinks I’m baking something for them.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>And that’s where things mushroomed again. There are eleven<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>members of his squad! The result is that I made three ornaments at a time (four times!) for two days. Each ornament has 10.6K stitches. Making them in multiples doesn’t change that, but it does minimize how many times I have to change the thread color, since each color stitches on all three ornaments, one after the other, before I have to change thread colors again. I ended up with twelve ornaments by doing it this way, so I’m keeping one. So there. \ud83d\ude09 I’ll deliver the others as soon as our grandson returns from a brief trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few days ago, I had an email from Thelander Designs — a perfectly ordinary email to advertise a sale on some of their embroidery designs. A quick glance and I’ll trash it, right? Oops. There was a design for an ornament for firefighters, and I just had to get it, since one of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[329],"tags":[193,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-5219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other-stitching","8":"tag-embroidery","9":"tag-family","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_0176.jpeg?fit=1280%2C980&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1mb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3606,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/15\/kitchen-towels-and-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":5219,"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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