{"id":78,"date":"2005-06-18T01:20:33","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T01:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2005-06-18T01:20:33","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T01:20:33","slug":"wool_is_wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/wool_is_wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":"Wool Is Wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a perfect weather week to work on quilting, I&#8217;ve done nothing but knit since Monday.  I finshed my felted bag (not really mine, it&#8217;s actually a belated birthday gift for my friend, Kate) in less than five days, since it was pretty much the only thing I did this week.  It turned out great though!<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.avenueb.org\/albums\/album29\/aaz.sized.jpg\" width=300 alt=\"Birthday Bag\"><\/center><br \/>\n(See my pretty lilies in the back?  I did gardening this week too!)<br \/>\nI bought enough black wool to make one for myself too&#8211;mine will have pink stripes instead though.  I need to have a knitting break for a few days first.<br \/>\nTo anyone concerned that I&#8217;ve gone over to the knitting darkside for good though: it&#8217;s just easier to tote a knitting project to my work this summer (I have a lot of downtime there) instead of the queen sized quilt in progress.  Sometimes (and I&#8217;m sure there are a lot of quilters who agree with me) I just have to take a break from my big projects, since they do consume so much of my time.  I don&#8217;t have to have the wedding quilt finished until October 8th (and then you both are getting <u>MARRIED<\/u>, Laura and Steve!!!) and I just don&#8217;t feel like I should burn myself out on it!<br \/>\n<i>No way<\/i> will I ever give up the quilting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being a perfect weather week to work on quilting, I&#8217;ve done nothing but knit since Monday. I finshed my felted bag (not really mine, it&#8217;s actually a belated birthday gift for my friend, Kate) in less than five days, since it was pretty much the only thing I did this week. It turned out <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/wool_is_wonderful\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}