{"id":22724,"date":"2014-04-15T06:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=22724"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:43:50","slug":"vintage-tuesday-my-first-sewing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/vintage-tuesday-my-first-sewing-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Tuesday: My First Sewing Project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tax Day! Hope you get a big fat refund!<\/p>\n<p>Recently <a href=\"http:\/\/marysartmusings.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mom<\/a> cleared out her storage unit. She found a lot of great stuff, like her jewelry box and some not so great stuff, e.g. my childhood in a plastic sweater box. I had mixed feelings as I went through the box. Clearly, these things meant something to me, or my mom, at some point, but, frankly, most of them I didn&#8217;t remember. I put them away. When I am dead someone else can decide to toss them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22714\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22714\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT4733sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22714\" alt=\"Childhood Heart Pillow\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT4733sm-300x248.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT4733sm-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/PICT4733sm.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Childhood Heart Pillow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did find this pillow, though, which I thought was very sweet. It doesn&#8217;t have my name on it, but if Mom says I made, I have to believe her. It looks like something I would do. I love the wonkiness of it. I also love the visible stitches. It seems heartfelt to me.<\/p>\n<p>It also seems odd, in a way, because I never called my mom &#8216;Mother&#8217;. That must have been the pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tax Day! Hope you get a big fat refund! Recently Mom cleared out her storage unit. She found a lot of great stuff, like her jewelry box and some not so great stuff, e.g. my childhood in a plastic sweater box. I had mixed feelings as I went through the box. Clearly, these things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/vintage-tuesday-my-first-sewing-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vintage Tuesday: My First Sewing Project?&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[316,86,211],"class_list":["post-22724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-vintage-tuesday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724","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=22724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}