{"id":5151,"date":"2022-03-15T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=5151"},"modified":"2022-03-15T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T20:17:55","slug":"february-no-march-gifted-gorgeousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=5151","title":{"rendered":"February (no March!) Gifted Gorgeousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had prepared this post for February\u2019s Gifted Gorgeousness<\/a> but got distracted and didn\u2019t post it! Sorry! I think the issue was I had not taken my pictures! I do not have an intermediate picture-just the most current views\u2026oh well. Anyway, I was working on the Victoria Sampler Heirloom Anniversary as a gift for my parents for their 50th anniversary in June. I have made my mom several smaller things over the years but this is probably the best thing I\u2019ve made for her, and the first thing for both my parents. She (and my dad of course!) deserve it! Not only with their gifts to me (you\u2019ve all seen the stockings my mom made for us!) but with their 50 years of faithful witness with their marriage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is how far I\u2019d gotten with it before last weekend. The outer border is done! I loved filling in with the eyelets. The hearts in the corners are beautiful but required careful counting! I was not able to stitch even one perfectly the first time. Not even the one I stitched in the morning. Ay yi yi!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The inner border is almost done but I ran out of Trebizond. I\u2019m doing better with the Trebizond but it\u2019s an annoying fiber because of how quickly it unravels. I must lose 2-3 inches off every cut length. It calls for 2 spools and I think I had 1 and a partial when I started so it truly did need 2 full spools. I think 2 more lengths will finish it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the meantime, I worked the \u201c50\u201d in the center and got started on the heart while I am waiting for the Trebizond. I\u2019m trying to decide if I want to do ribbon roses or bullion knots. I will try a bullion knot rose first and then decide. The colors are slightly different so I may just need to do the bullion ones so it looks best. I had to find ribbon in my stash because the included ribbon was for the long sampler on the front cover and I\u2019m just doing the heart. Fortunately I had the perfect thing. I am using Southwest Sand by The Thread Gatherer (the called for is Rose Gold by Petals which I don\u2019t think is made any longer).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend I took advantage of a good morning stitching time to start the cutting\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And add the beads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ll get started on the roses this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan is to have it framed up to take to their anniversary party in June. They are hosting us (their 4 children and families) for a little lake getaway in Indiana where they live. Indiana heat will be a nice break from Arizona heat. It has been several years since I\u2019ve seen my siblings between Covid and us being spread out all over the country so it is a long overdue reunion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head back to Jo\u2019s to see more Gifted Gorgeousness this month<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I had prepared this post for February\u2019s Gifted Gorgeousness but got distracted and didn\u2019t post it! Sorry! I think the issue was I had not taken my pictures! I do not have an intermediate picture-just the most current views\u2026oh well. Anyway, I was working on the Victoria Sampler Heirloom Anniversary as a gift for my parents for their 50th anniversary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,59],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-5151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-hop","category-wips","tag-victoria-sampler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GG-2022.jpg?fit=200%2C150&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151","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=5151"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5151\/revisions\/5207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}