{"id":7355,"date":"2026-02-05T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7355"},"modified":"2026-02-05T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:07:33","slug":"a-finish-in-february-and-good-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7355","title":{"rendered":"A Finish in February! And Good Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up a little bitty project to stitch on a plane trip last weekend&#8230;it was so small I finished it! This is Christmas Scissors Basket from JBW Designs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130336.jpg?resize=600%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-7357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130336.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130336.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was one of those projects that stitched so fast I wondered why I didn&#8217;t just stitch it when I got it. I probably spent more time thinking about starting it than actually stitching. How silly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I plan to finish this as an oval ornament rather than as a scissor keep (that&#8217;s why I left off the extra leaves, so it would be oval shape) with a real bow on the basket handle. It will be very cute I think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also brought The Red and Green Carnation Sampler. I made really good progress on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130354.jpg?resize=600%2C750&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-7358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130354.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130354.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it will not be too hard to finish it this month. I&#8217;ll keep plugging away. The main slow down will be my desire to tidy up the border motifs which I think are just too wonky. That part will be coming up soon so I&#8217;ve got some decisions to make!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a little bitty project to stitch on a plane trip last weekend&#8230;it was so small I finished it! This is Christmas Scissors Basket from JBW Designs: This was one of those projects that stitched so fast I wondered why I didn&#8217;t just stitch it when I got it. I probably spent more time thinking about starting it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[32,202],"class_list":["post-7355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finish-and-wip","tag-jbw","tag-samplers-remembered"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_2026-02-05-130704.jpg?fit=600%2C750&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355","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=7355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7355\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}