{"id":27769,"date":"2015-04-28T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=27769"},"modified":"2016-08-23T18:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:06:28","slug":"christmas-pillowcases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/christmas-pillowcases\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Pillowcases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27772\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0256sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0256sm-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"7 Christmas Pillowcases\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0256sm-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSCN0256sm.jpg 993w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">7 Christmas Pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/christmas-pillowcases-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Last year<\/a>, I thought about making pillowcases for all of the nieces and nephews. It didn&#8217;t get done. I didn&#8217;t do it. I made an effort, though. I pressed a bunch of Christmas fabric at some point and it has been hanging over a piece of furniture for months. For some reason, I decided to get those pieces of fabric out of my life. Well, not out of my life quite yet, but into a form where I can get them out of my life in December.<\/p>\n<p>I made 7 pillowcases on Sunday. I don&#8217;t really like making pillowcases, but making them in batches is much better than one at a time. I get a feel for the cutting and once I deal with the cutting issues, the sewing is much, much easier. The sewing is actually really easy &#8211; 5 seams and the pillowcase is finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I thought about making pillowcases for all of the nieces and nephews. It didn&#8217;t get done. I didn&#8217;t do it. I made an effort, though. I pressed a bunch of Christmas fabric at some point and it has been hanging over a piece of furniture for months. For some reason, I decided to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/christmas-pillowcases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Pillowcases&#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":[379],"tags":[8,316,86,201],"class_list":["post-27769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-christmas","tag-gifts","tag-off-topic-crafts","tag-pillowcases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27769","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=27769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}