{"id":1090,"date":"2006-11-13T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T02:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/approaching-the-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T22:54:34","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T02:54:34","slug":"approaching-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/approaching-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching The Finish Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gifts finished: 17<br \/>\nGifts in progress: 4<br \/>\nGifts unstarted: 1*<br \/>\n<font size=\"-2\">* This number doesn&#8217;t count food gifts or teeny-tiny projects.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>It looks like there&#8217;s a very good possibility I&#8217;ll make my self-imposed deadline of Thanksgiving to finish everything I&#8217;m making for Christmas gifts.  My goal is to have everything finished or purchased &#038; wrapped by December 1st, along with having the house clean(ish) and decorated(ish).  This way I can spend the weeks leading up to Christmas writing Christmas cards, baking cookies and enjoying my birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Carrie&#8217;s dress is -> <- this close to being done.  I have to figure out how I want to hem the pinafore (I'm not in love with the ruffle the pattern calls for) and I still haven't hemmed the sleeves of the dress.  And apparently satin ribbon wide enough to be a sash doesn't exist...?  But I'm so glad I started it so early!  Thanks for all the compliments on it.<\/p>\n<p>A very rare non-Christmas finished object has been sighted.  It&#8217;s still lurking in the tote bag awaiting buttons, but I may be able to steal a few moments to finish that small task and take some pictures tomorrow.  My blog has become very boring with all of this Christmas crafting going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gifts finished: 17 Gifts in progress: 4 Gifts unstarted: 1* * This number doesn&#8217;t count food gifts or teeny-tiny projects. It looks like there&#8217;s a very good possibility I&#8217;ll make my self-imposed deadline of Thanksgiving to finish everything I&#8217;m making<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}