{"id":3004,"date":"2020-05-29T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=3004"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:09:07","slug":"may-2020-smalls-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=3004","title":{"rendered":"May 2020 Smalls Check In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the May 2020 Smalls Check In! I hope everyone got some good stitching in this month! How are things going in your corners of the world? We are not quite emerged from our isolation&#8230;mainly due to personal comfort. We are a bunch of homebodies around here! Maybe next month we will go out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is my small for May, A Stitch in Time by With Thy Needle and Thread. It is stitched on Weeks &#8220;Gun Metal&#8221; with the called for threads, except the blue which was too close to the fabric color so I subbed a lighter blue on the birds. This will be finished as a pin ball. I have not made one before but the instructions look pretty clear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2885-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is what I learned. I do not universally dislike stitching on dark colors. This dark linen was relatively easy to stitch on! My problems with the other dark linen I have for another project must not just be because it&#8217;s dark. This is a little BBD chart stitched on Lupine from PTP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_2890-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the trouble is the count (the Lupine is 36 and the Gun Metal is 32) and the mottling. I&#8217;ll try my glasses and super bright light on the Lupine and see if it goes better. Maybe it can be my small for June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What have you stitched, and learned, this month? Link up to share below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!-- start LinkyTools script -->\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=297897\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n<!-- end LinkyTools script -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the May 2020 Smalls Check In! I hope everyone got some good stitching in this month! How are things going in your corners of the world? We are not quite emerged from our isolation&#8230;mainly due to personal comfort. We are a bunch of homebodies around here! Maybe next month we will go out! Here is my small for [&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":[142,141],"tags":[61,146],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-2020","category-smalls-sal-2020","tag-blackbird-designs","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\/3004","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=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}