{"id":169,"date":"2016-12-23T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2017-01-02T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T21:55:40","slug":"between-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Between the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?resize=474%2C632&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/img_4600.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Between Christmas and New Years and family and feasting there has not been a lot of stitching going! And Random Thoughts seems to be coming along SO SLOWLY. I&#8217;m not sure why-it seems like it should be quick. And you know, I was saying before about Birds, that I always thought many pieces from Drawn Thread were a little drab color-wise-and I must be wrong because Birds was very nice&#8230;weelll&#8230;.this is a little too drab for me. No, No! I like it and the motifs are sweet and I like all the variety! But the colors&#8230;well if I had more confidence for that and if it didn&#8217;t already come with the silks, I might try to brighten it up.<\/p>\n<p>Now here&#8217;s a little more on it and I think as I get more elements on it that will help a lot. It is subdued and that&#8217;s restful anyway.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?ssl=1\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?resize=360%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/img_4646.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Christmas and New Years and family and feasting there has not been a lot of stitching going! And Random Thoughts seems to be coming along SO SLOWLY. I&#8217;m not sure why-it seems like it should be quick. And you know, I was saying before about Birds, that I always thought many pieces from Drawn Thread were a little drab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,15],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-thoughts","tag-the-drawn-thread"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}