{"id":342,"date":"2003-07-03T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2003-07-03T10:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/07\/a-girls-gotta-do\/"},"modified":"2003-07-03T06:57:52","modified_gmt":"2003-07-03T10:57:52","slug":"a-girls-gotta-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/07\/a-girls-gotta-do\/","title":{"rendered":"A Girl&#8217;s Gotta Do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what a girl&#8217;s gotta do!  I really want a light box, to help with my quilting efforts.  What quilting efforts, you ask?  Well, see, I know I haven&#8217;t been quilting much lately, but I started the <a href=\"\/crafts\/index.shtml?mysteryQuilt\">Mystery Quilting Project<\/a> the other night.  The MQP involves a lot of applique and&#8230;oops, I&#8217;ve said too much.  Anyway, tracing patterns taped to the window is a little tough, and pre-made light boxes as big as I want aren&#8217;t too cheap.<\/p>\n<p>So, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianhomeworkshop.com\/weekender_tracingbox.html\">these instructions<\/a>.  The only modification I&#8217;m making is that the finished size will be 15&#8243; square (14&#8243; usable), since the MQP blocks are 12&#8243; square.  Not only do we have all of the power tools required, I went to Home Depot and got all of the raw materials last night.  The employee who cut the acrylic top to size was totally surprised that <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> making it.  I took shop class.  Granted it was, ah, 14 years ago, but c&#8217;mon, how hard is it to use a table saw?!?  <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll be careful with the table saw.  Gotta keep the quilting (and knitting) fingers intact!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;what a girl&#8217;s gotta do! I really want a light box, to help with my quilting efforts. What quilting efforts, you ask? Well, see, I know I haven&#8217;t been quilting much lately, but I started the Mystery Quilting Project the<\/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-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}