{"id":4,"date":"2005-03-02T09:54:11","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T13:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/march-cross-stitch\/"},"modified":"2005-03-02T09:54:11","modified_gmt":"2005-03-02T13:54:11","slug":"march-cross-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/03\/march-cross-stitch\/","title":{"rendered":"March Cross Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"march_sb.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2005\/march_sb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"357\" align=\"right\" \/>A year ago I started collecting the charts and buttons for a 12-month series of cross-stitch patterns from <a href=\"http:\/\/shepherdsbush.com\/\">Shepherd&#8217;s Bush<\/a>.  On Saturday, I was finally inspired to start them!  They&#8217;re teeny-tiny &#8211; I didn&#8217;t measure, but maybe 3&#8243; by 5&#8243;? &#8211; so they&#8217;re quick to stitch.  I figure this one took about 8 hours worth of stitching time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finally starting to have a bit more crafting time lately.  Once Carrie goes to bed, I have a little &#8220;me&#8221; time, plus we&#8217;re starting to work out how she can take naps that last longer than 10 minutes without having me hold her for the duration.  Not that I mind snuggling with my baby, but it&#8217;s nice to have my arms free occasionally!<\/p>\n<p>Now I just need to figure out how to display these without spending a fortune on framing them.  Oh, and I still need to stitch the other eleven months.  Details, details&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>While I was out buying the thread I needed for this, I bought a couple of patterns for cross-stitched ornaments and some fabric to stitch them on.  My goal for Christmas this year is to have an &#8220;unbreakable tree&#8221;.  I have some felt ornaments I started last fall that are nearly done, and I&#8217;m planning to order a pattern for some knitted ornaments.  This way, if we secure the tree to the wall, we won&#8217;t have to worry <i>quite<\/i> as much about having a toddler near it.  (The dozen or so spun-glass heart ornaments we got as a gift the first year we were married won&#8217;t be coming out of storage for a long, long time.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I started collecting the charts and buttons for a 12-month series of cross-stitch patterns from Shepherd&#8217;s Bush. On Saturday, I was finally inspired to start them! They&#8217;re teeny-tiny &#8211; I didn&#8217;t measure, but maybe 3&#8243; by 5&#8243;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cross-stitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","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=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}