{"id":30,"date":"2016-09-29T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2017-01-08T19:15:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:15:13","slug":"more-summer-finishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"More Summer Finishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing from yesterday here are a few more things finished up this summer:<\/p>\n

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All My Love by Sisters and Best Friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I made this for our 15th<\/span><\/sup> wedding anniversary. It was quick but had a trick for me-there are 2 different red beads used-very similar-and I ran out of one kind about \u00be of the way through so I had to hunt around to find a good match. These little setbacks always seem to take me so long to resolve-they seem insurmountable! But there they were, the perfect bead match,\u00a0 at JoAnns! Hooray! Then off to the framer. She always does a marvelous job. I am so pleased with it.\u00a0 He likes it too. It was a good surprise\u2026in August..2 months after our anniversary.<\/p>\n

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You are my Sunshine by Cathy Jean of The Victoria Sampler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ahh, I have had this FOREVER. How long? It was supposed to be #1\u2019s baby piece but he is almost 9 now (and does not like it\u00a0 for his big boy room) so there it is, I’ve had it, at least 8 years, probably closer to 9. I still like it so now it is for me. I have wondered, what will I do with the boys\u2019 needleworks when they are too big and manly to want them on their walls? I hope by that point I will have my own space in the house and I will put them there to remember my babies. I am not so concerned about the girls because theirs stand alone as beautiful pieces for their walls even if they are baby records. I will show you them later. In any case, you are probably wondering how it is that the girls both had beautiful, involved pieces made and framed even before I started #1\u2019s. I don\u2019t know! What was my hesitation? (I hem and haw a lot). Maybe because of the silk. I had not used silk before-just the little bit on Bee Blossoms, and you know what happened with that!- but oh my, how wonderful it is to make rows and rows of crosses with silk. I just loved it. There is a lot more silk in my future!<\/span><\/p>\n

Finishing stitching Autumn Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Autumn Garden by Cherished Stitches-Lovely lovely. So fun. A good learning experience with attaching the chenille. To finish I made a little muslin bag just a hair smaller than the pillow which I stuck inside, and filled with lavender scented walnut shells. The scent is mostly worn off now-it wore off really quickly! but it has a nice heft. I will use this finishing technique again. The chenille was easy once I figured out a method to attach it. It is really a great little piece. Very satisfying.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finished Autumn Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I followed the Autumn Garden up with Summer Gathering by Cherished Stitches-Also lovely. I had to make a summer one right away so the seasons I had made would be correct for the years on them\u00a0you know, since I plan to do the winter one this winter. However I do not care as much for the recommended\u00a0finish. All the other pillows in this set have a backing material and a chenille trim and I prefer them more alike. For this\u00a0I actually would like a burgundy pom pom trim to finish the edge of the pillow, made with the provided fabric, and forgo the buttons and burlap trim. I think the pom poms will set off the red flowers\/berries well. Now. To find pom poms in burgundy. There is so much RED available! <\/span><\/p>\n

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Finished unfinished Summer Gathering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing from yesterday here are a few more things finished up this summer: I made this for our 15th wedding anniversary. It was quick but had a trick for me-there are 2 different red beads used-very similar-and I ran out of one kind about \u00be of the way through so I had to hunt around to find a good match. […]<\/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":[45],"tags":[11,7,2,10,12,8,9],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-2016","tag-baby","tag-cherished-stitches","tag-finish","tag-pin-cushions","tag-seasons","tag-sisters-and-best-friends","tag-victoria-sampler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}