{"id":7157,"date":"2025-07-28T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:54:57","slug":"mary-ellen-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7157","title":{"rendered":"Mary Ellen Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wanted to get back to some cross stitch comfort stitching so I picked up Mary Ellen Turner these past few nights. I needed some stitching that didn\u2019t take too much thinking,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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\/2025\/07\/img_2025-07-28-184647.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2025-07-28-184647.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2025-07-28-184647.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2025-07-28-184647.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve made excellent progress on it. I really am enjoying the Belle Soie silks, both the colors and the feel of the silk. It&#8217;s coming out really pretty. I love the big fancy floral thing. The castle will be done a bit here, a bit there. It feels massive. I have the first story marked in. There is another story and then towers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to The Fellowship of the Ring while I stitch this and it feels like the stitching and the listening coordinate in style, so I like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must get back to fillings on Dorcas this week if I want to get the band done, or mostly done, in the next month so hopefully you&#8217;ll see more of her by the end of the week too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to get back to some cross stitch comfort stitching so I picked up Mary Ellen Turner these past few nights. I needed some stitching that didn\u2019t take too much thinking, I&#8217;ve made excellent progress on it. I really am enjoying the Belle Soie silks, both the colors and the feel of the silk. It&#8217;s coming out really pretty. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[247,278],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wips","tag-fox-and-rabbit","tag-mary-ellen-turner"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_2025-07-28-184647-1.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","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=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7164,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}