{"id":4021,"date":"2021-04-11T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:02:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T20:02:38","slug":"couldnt-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t resist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I put the first stitches in the Italian Peacocks Purse. This will go quickly if I work on it diligently, But I&#8217;m not going to. I want to make progress on my hard projects and that will never happen if I keep doing the easy ones!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_5096.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4038\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t resist making a start on another Bucket List project which I thought would be hard though, the Elegant Lady&#8217;s Bargello Needle Roll from Sampler Cove and Jackie du Plessis. It turns out that as long as I count\u2026and recount\u2026and double check obsessively, this will be fairly straightforward and not so hard after all. But big! It is 6&#215;12&#8243; solidly stitched. That&#8217;s 6 rows of these ogee shapes which I only outlined one night and then started to fill in the next night. I don&#8217;t do a lot of full coverage you know so that&#8217;s a lot of stitching in a small space for me! But my, will it be stunning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_5086-scaled-e1618076957637.jpg?resize=640%2C442&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4035\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok. I promise I will do something to merit working on these ones and show you really soon. This week. I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put the first stitches in the Italian Peacocks Purse. This will go quickly if I work on it diligently, But I&#8217;m not going to. I want to make progress on my hard projects and that will never happen if I keep doing the easy ones! I couldn&#8217;t resist making a start on another Bucket List project which I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[190,86,191],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wips","tag-giulia-punti-antichi","tag-gpa","tag-sampler-cove"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/img_5085-scaled-e1618076864882.jpg?fit=1000%2C180&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021","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=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}