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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nI worked a lot on Foxy. The “plunging” was tedious. It took all afternoon. I felt like I wasn’t getting anywherefor the hours spent. But I feel like the rest of the project should go quicker. I HOPE so! I want to put something else in this sit on frame for April!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I also worked on The Pink Sparrow. The first 2 pages are almost done. I really like it. The colors are great in this one. It is really a super sampler. I’m so glad I picked it! I’m so glad it was available to be picked!<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, Happy Birthday to me! In addition to my stitching time, I had some wonderful non-stitchy presents: A gorgeous cactus, a new bike (I haven’t had one in over 20 years! But with Coronavirus and kids raring to get out of the house, it really became a necessity!) And fresh squeezed orange juice for breakfast and chocolate chip cookies for a treat! (I love cake, but for my birthday we usually have cookies as we have one birthday a month in our family from November to March, with one more birthday coming in May, and by March we need a break from cake so we can enjoy our April Easter lamb cake and our May birthday cake.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My husband wanted to know what I wanted to do on my birthday this past weekend, and I bet you can guess what I said! I wanted some nice long uninterrupted stitching time! I started on Autumn Quakers. My mom gave me the linen as part of my present. I have the first little corner motif done. This is my […]<\/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":[59],"tags":[148,145,150,147,152,146],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wips","tag-becky-hogg","tag-brenda-gervais","tag-foxy","tag-rosewood-manor","tag-the-pink-sparrow","tag-with-thy-needle-and-thread"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/img_2403-scaled.jpg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1\")
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