{"id":5739,"date":"2025-09-21T10:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:40:22","slug":"the-coffee-corner-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/21\/the-coffee-corner-is-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"The coffee corner is growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Part<\/a>I’m making good progress on the Wonderfil BOM that I started late. In fact, I’ve caught up! I’ve sewn together the first two rows and will look forward to finishing the third row next month.After that, there should be at least one more row of several blocks to finish it up. The only problem with a BOM like this is that I’d have chosen some different colors for some of the designs, if I’d known what it was going to look like. But that’s part of the fun of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m making good progress on the Wonderfil BOM that I started late. In fact, I’ve caught up! I’ve sewn together the first two rows and will look forward to finishing the third row next month.After that, there should be at least one more row of several blocks to finish it up. The only problem with […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[339,228],"class_list":{"0":"post-5739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"tag-bom","8":"tag-paper-piecing","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1uz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5727,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/latest-makes\/","url_meta":{"origin":5739,"position":0},"title":"Latest makes","author":"Sandy","date":"September 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been busy! 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