{"id":21983,"date":"2013-12-22T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=21983"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:45:51","slug":"stocking-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/stocking-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocking Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221529_wm-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20131221_221529_wm-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221529_wm-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finished writing all the cards on my list last night. That means I get to work on embellishing the stockings. It is kind of a reward. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/stockings-were-not-hung\/\">As I explained previously,<\/a> these are simple felt stockings. Every year I try to embellish them a little more so they are more interesting and more special.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221537_wm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20131221_221537_wm.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221537_wm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I worked on DH&#8217;s stocking, the Noel stocking. I thought about adding joyeux, but I don&#8217;t think there is enough space. I am not going to change anything major, because I want to focus on the embellishing.<\/p>\n<p>I went around the Noel in a blanket stitch, but I did it wrong. Still, I think it looks more interesting now than before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221544_wm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"20131221_221544_wm.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wpid-20131221_221544_wm.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had already done the blanket stitch on the bottom, but added some to the top, which was a little tricky. <\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what to add next, so I may move on to another stocking. <\/p>\n<p>Beading, maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished writing all the cards on my list last night. That means I get to work on embellishing the stockings. It is kind of a reward. As I explained previously, these are simple felt stockings. Every year I try to embellish them a little more so they are more interesting and more special. Tonight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/stocking-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stocking Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[402],"tags":[313,332],"class_list":["post-21983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-402","tag-embellishment","tag-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}