{"id":4183,"date":"2021-05-18T10:08:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:09:25","slug":"best-laid-plans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wanted to finish my Italian Peacocks Purse last week. Normally I should have been able to do that! But, &#8220;Ha ha ha,&#8221; said Life. And I should have known better anyway! We had a birthday in our family. On Wednesday night I was putting up decorations. On Friday night I was making the cake. Here is the cake. The request was for a husky dog cake. Pretty cute, right?<\/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=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/husky-cake.jpg?resize=640%2C662&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4194\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I only was able to stitch a little bit on Thursday so needless to say, I did not finish my peacocks. I decided to forego the Blackbird Designs Weekend SAL to work on the peacocks instead. I still did not finish them. I needed Monday too. Now it is done! Voila!<\/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=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_5291.jpg?resize=640%2C520&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4190\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/anna-zont.blogspot.com\/2013\/06\/kelmscott-designs.html\">another blog with a tutorial<\/a> for this very purse, in Russian. Thank goodness for Google translate! I think I can figure it out and anyway the pictures are very helpful. We&#8217;ll see what I can do with it. There are a lot of steps to the finishing including the fancy tassels. I haven&#8217;t decided what I want to make them out of. I don&#8217;t think I want to use several skeins of silk floss-that is a bit too indulgent even for me. I will try to see if I have a good color of cotton  overdyed floss, or maybe use a couple colors of DMC.  Anyway it is a good thing this will be a summer project! I think it will take at least a whole day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to finish my Italian Peacocks Purse last week. Normally I should have been able to do that! But, &#8220;Ha ha ha,&#8221; said Life. And I should have known better anyway! We had a birthday in our family. On Wednesday night I was putting up decorations. On Friday night I was making the cake. Here is the cake. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[198,190,86],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finished-2021","tag-cake","tag-giulia-punti-antichi","tag-gpa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/img_5290-scaled-e1621357192347.jpg?fit=1000%2C469&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}