{"id":825,"date":"2011-02-08T19:24:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=825"},"modified":"2011-02-08T19:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T00:05:58","slug":"felicia-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Felicia Continued"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look what arrived in the mail!<\/p>\n

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Silk.<\/p>\n

Ribbon.<\/p>\n

Yumm.<\/p>\n

The buttons are stash. \u00a0They’re glass and while they look really <\/em>dark here, they’re a darn near exact match for the fabric. \u00a0They’re just the right size, too so hurray for serendipity.<\/p>\n

When we last<\/a> left our intrepid heroine, she was here:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the progress I’ve made. \u00a0(And no, the fabric hasn’t changed colour – I took these last night, under artificial light. \u00a0Went from blue to kinda greyish – darn colour temperatures! \u00a0The pictures I took in natural light are accurate.)<\/p>\n

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Not a ton, admittedly, but I have completed the smocking on Flower Power, made the Valentine’s pouches and made a sample for the quilting class I taught last week. \u00a0Plus worked and wrote and generally kept my family fed and dressed and out of the pool halls \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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As you can see, I completed the top band and have made about five rows of progress on the second. \u00a0Haven’t started in on the beadwork yet, but that will come as soon as I finish the trellis diamonds. \u00a0The backsmocking is done, too and when that’s done, I can pull out the pleating threads and get on to the ribbon work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look what arrived in the mail! Silk. Ribbon. Yumm. The buttons are stash. \u00a0They’re glass and while they look really dark here, they’re a darn near exact match for the fabric. \u00a0They’re just the right size, too so hurray for serendipity. When we last left our intrepid heroine, she was here: And here’s the progress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smocking","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}