{"id":363,"date":"2003-06-08T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T02:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/06\/a-little-optimistic\/"},"modified":"2003-06-08T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T02:33:56","slug":"a-little-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/06\/a-little-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Optimistic&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I forgot how long it takes to darn in ends.  Oh, well.  I did finish the <a href=\"\/crafts\/index.shtml?icelandicShawl\">Icelandic Lace Shawl<\/a>, and I just need to run to the craft store to buy rust-proof pins to block it out.  <\/p>\n<p>I managed to sew the raglan seams on the <a href=\"\/crafts\/index.shtml?purpleWoolSweater\">purple sweater<\/a>&#8230;just the side seams and a million ends to hide.  (I really should start doing them as I go along!)<\/p>\n<p>The third project?  I started a felted bag not last fall, but the fall before.  I almost finished it probably about a month after I&#8217;d started it.  All I have left to do is (take a guess) hide the ends, and felt it.  I dragged it out of the craft closet to make the attempt, but got tied up with the ends of the shawl.<\/p>\n<p>So, this week I&#8217;m going to try to finish hiding ends on everything, blocking the shawl, and felting the bag.  I <i>promise<\/i> not to start anything new until those things are done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I forgot how long it takes to darn in ends. Oh, well. I did finish the Icelandic Lace Shawl, and I just need to run to the craft store to buy rust-proof pins to block it out. I<\/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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}