{"id":5436,"date":"2024-08-23T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5436"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:23:15","slug":"more-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/23\/more-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"More ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband and I give our grandchildren a Christmas ornament each year. To give a bit of background, we had\u00a0no<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Christmas ornaments when we married, so I made a point of giving each of our daughters an ornament each year so they’d have a little supply when they began their own homes. That naturally morphed into giving each of the grandchildren an ornament. Sometimes we buy ornaments if we see some we especially like, and sometimes I make them. This year was one of those years, and I found some very pretty embroidery designs to make. I did have to slow my machine (Bernina 790Pro) down significantly to accommodate the metallic threads; even the wonderful, usually trouble-free KingStar metallics had problems with the density of these designs, but it all worked out in the end. But all seven are done! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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My husband and I give our grandchildren a Christmas ornament each year. To give a bit of background, we had\u00a0no\u00a0Christmas ornaments when we married, so I made a point of giving each of our daughters an ornament each year so they’d have a little supply when they began their own homes. 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