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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nMy only concern is this is a very vintage kit and the wool is a bit furry. It is losing some shreds. I am not sure if it is 100% the wool or the needle. I am using a new needle as the original one was rusted and mine is maybe too small. I will hunt for a better one, but for now I’m just dealing with a bit of shred. It is not totally disintegrating, it’s still stitchable, but it’s a little sheddy. Smaller lengths seem to be helping. Anyway, I like ti too much to give it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have always like Chris Davenport’s artwork. Probably because from when I was small in the 80s, I had one of her alphabet designs as decor over my bed. My mother stitched it.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nMy mom also stitched me my first Christmas stocking, also by Chris Davenport.<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nYou may remember the couple other ornaments of hers I did myself:<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAnyway, It don’t know that I’ll finish this Santa for Christmas this year, but I like having a start on him. It is a nice thing to work on, and a good break from cross stitch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I wanted to stitch…I didn’t know what. I wanted to do something new. The holidays are coming. It has been quite a while since I’ve picked up crewel. I do enjoy a bit of crewel and I have a small collection of Chris Davenport designs of ornaments. I decided one of those would do. The Santa. Here is my start: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-something-different"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/img_2024-11-30-125255-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874","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=6874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6888,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6874\/revisions\/6888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}