{"id":57934,"date":"2022-12-11T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=57934"},"modified":"2022-12-05T18:27:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T02:27:41","slug":"sewing-advent-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/sewing-advent-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Advent Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_57948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57948\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221123_140223_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57948\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221123_140223_wm-sm-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Wrapped gift from Julie\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221123_140223_wm-sm-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221123_140223_wm-sm-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221123_140223_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wrapped gift from Julie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Friend Julie&#8217;s birthday is December 1. Like mine, we bookend Christmas, though our birthdays are both far enough away to, mostly, not get combined gifts. Regardless, I try and make sure her gift arrives so she can open it on December 1 and she can enjoy it before all the other Christmas gifts arrive. I&#8217;d like it to arrive the day before, but it&#8217;s challenging, because of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57936\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57936\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sewing Advent Calendar\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-768x1003.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-1177x1536.jpg 1177w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-1569x2048.jpg 1569w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-1200x1567.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221201_132630_wm-sm-scaled.jpg 1961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 85vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing Advent Calendar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year, I was surprised to receive a gift from her that I needed to open on her birthday! It was super fun to keep it on my desk and think about what it could be while I worked. I couldn&#8217;t guess, so was surprised and pleased when I opened an Advent calendar with sewing labels inside. These are labels I can use in my bags and on my quilts.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/wunderlabels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wunderlabels<\/a>, I need to get better about remembering to add them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_57937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57937\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221202_182831_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57937\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221202_182831_wm-sm-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Advent Calendar label, day 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221202_182831_wm-sm-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221202_182831_wm-sm-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221202_182831_wm-sm.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-57937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advent Calendar label, day 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unlike the Wunderlabels, these are not personalized. The labels behind the doors I have opened so far have different sewing related sayings on them. Each door seems to have two of the same labels behind it.<\/p>\n<p>It is really fun to open these every day and I am pleased about having something fun to do on the lead up to Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend Julie&#8217;s birthday is December 1. Like mine, we bookend Christmas, though our birthdays are both far enough away to, mostly, not get combined gifts. Regardless, I try and make sure her gift arrives so she can open it on December 1 and she can enjoy it before all the other Christmas gifts arrive. I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/sewing-advent-calendar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sewing Advent Calendar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[506],"tags":[508],"class_list":["post-57934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-gifrs-for-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58002,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57934\/revisions\/58002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}