{"id":5961,"date":"2022-12-27T12:53:57","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T19:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2022-12-27T17:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T00:30:15","slug":"december-2022-gifted-gorgeousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=5961","title":{"rendered":"December 2022 Gifted Gorgeousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Merry Christmas!! Here is my seasonal smalls display of red and green. I love how well they coordinate! It makes me happy to see this every morning on my hall table. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"235\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-18-110452.jpg?resize=640%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-18-110452.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-18-110452.jpg?resize=300%2C110&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-18-110452.jpg?resize=768%2C282&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I hope you all had a happy celebration! We did indeed, with the slight wrench of Covid diagnoses in our family (not me, yet, but 3 of the 7 of us so far, plus my out of town family member who was visiting, so it\u2019s a matter of time, right?) None of us are very sick thanks to vaccinations but we will all stay in isolation till the new year. Covid has become quite tiresome, don\u2019t you think? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got some wonderful stitching goodies from my family so I\u2019m making a post for Gifted Gorgeousness! Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/december-gifted-gorgeousness-link-up.html?m=1\">Jo of Serendipitous Stitching<\/a> for giving me the opportunity to share!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-124219.jpg?resize=640%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-124219.jpg?resize=874%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 874w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-124219.jpg?resize=256%2C300&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-124219.jpg?resize=768%2C899&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-124219.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I received a goldwork kit by Becky Hogg, a needle lace book, a few lovely charts, luscious Thread Gatherer silks in my favorite colors, notions \u2018n\u2019 needles, and, you can\u2019t see it too well, but also a darling pewter hedgehog pin cushion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a close up. So cute! <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152803.jpg?resize=640%2C580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152803.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152803.jpg?resize=300%2C272&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152803.jpg?resize=768%2C697&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I also got the set of Vikki Clayton silks to stitch the ES Spot motif sampler. I will start it right away, not that I need a new start!! <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152743.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5971\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152743.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152743.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/img_2022-12-27-152743.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>So you can see a very generous Christmas! But never to forget the reason we celebrate which is God\u2019s most generous gift to us of his Son and our salvation! Wishing you all a beautiful end to 2022! Feel free to stop by again Friday for the last Smalls check in of 2022!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas!! Here is my seasonal smalls display of red and green. I love how well they coordinate! It makes me happy to see this every morning on my hall table. I hope you all had a happy celebration! We did indeed, with the slight wrench of Covid diagnoses in our family (not me, yet, but 3 of the 7 [&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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-hop"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","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=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5974,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions\/5974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}