{"id":5284,"date":"2024-02-18T15:14:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2024-02-18T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T23:14:40","slug":"i-took-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/18\/i-took-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"I took a break …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Triptych<\/a>… from my fun “needle” quilt today. I’d run across an embroidery design that I just loved, so I stitched it up before continuing the next step on my quilt. The design is from Janine Babich<\/a>, the second one I’ve ever done of hers. The first one was a *long* time ago, but it was equally well digitized and constructed. Anyway, this design is perfect for us! Be sure to click on the photo to see all of the cute details. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… from my fun “needle” quilt today. I’d run across an embroidery design that I just loved, so I stitched it up before continuing the next step on my quilt. The design is from Janine Babich, the second one I’ve ever done of hers. The first one was a *long* time ago, but it 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-5284","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-1ne","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3680,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/13\/a-reveal\/","url_meta":{"origin":5284,"position":0},"title":"A reveal","author":"Sandy","date":"December 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that the holiday party for our quilt group is over, I can show the things I made for our gift exchange. 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