{"id":7495,"date":"2026-08-18T16:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7495"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T23:49:00","slug":"little-xs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/?p=7495","title":{"rendered":"Little Xs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I picked up Anna Millet from Reflets de Soie last week. I felt that a monochrome project and one with a lot of letters in it would be an inspiring thing to try to get the stitching mojo back. I think that is working out. I have made some progress since last time I touched this<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before:<\/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\/2024\/03\/img_2024-03-06-163940-1.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_2024-03-06-163940-1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_2024-03-06-163940-1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_2024-03-06-163940-1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-163941.jpg?resize=640%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-7493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-163941.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-163941.jpg?resize=300%2C240&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-163941.jpg?resize=500%2C400&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The progress looks smaller than I thought! Oh well. This is on a 46 ct Cedar River linen with Gloriana Florimel in Thistle Green. I plan to make a few touches here and there in gold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This past weekend I took my son to move him into his college dorm. I did take Anna with me but didn\u2019t have the bandwidth for 46 so I mostly worked on Mary Ellen Turner, which is in 36. I got a good deal done on the plane ride, the whole left border is now complete and more of the verse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-164208.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-7494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-164208.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-164208.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These photos are really dark but you get the idea. These 2 projects will be my main focus for Sampler September. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have some smalls lined up to work on\u2026I couldn\u2019t resist a Facebook Blackbird Designs SAL and while I feel it\u2019s too late for the August assignment of ABCs, I have 3 bird projects for the September assignment. It will be hard to choose or maybe I\u2019ll do them all! Seriously though these days there\u2019s no telling what I will do. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up Anna Millet from Reflets de Soie last week. I felt that a monochrome project and one with a lot of letters in it would be an inspiring thing to try to get the stitching mojo back. I think that is working out. I have made some progress since last time I touched this Before: Now: The progress [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[247,237],"class_list":["post-7495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wips","tag-fox-and-rabbit","tag-reflets-de-soie"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/img_2026-08-21-163941.jpg?fit=750%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495","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=7495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}