{"id":66622,"date":"2025-05-22T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=66622"},"modified":"2025-05-21T21:49:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:49:47","slug":"christmas-pillowcase-project-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/christmas-pillowcase-project-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Pillowcase Project Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_66625\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66625\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250519_184145_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66625\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250519_184145_wm-sm-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas pillowcases\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250519_184145_wm-sm-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250519_184145_wm-sm-768x672.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250519_184145_wm-sm.jpg 917w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas pillowcases<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I spoke about the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/christmas-pillowcases-redux\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pillowcases I wanted to make for &#8216;new&#8217; family members<\/a> that have joined since the <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/more-pillowcases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">last time<\/a> I made pillowcases for the nieces and nephews. I gathered the fabric and was planning on slowly working through the 8 I needed to make when I had time.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I had time at work when I had to listen to a meeting, but didn&#8217;t need to participate. I was able to cut and trim. It is really good, because my hands are busy which helps me pay attention.<\/p>\n<p>Then, while I was sewing the endless bits for the Old Town borders, I used the pillowcases as leaders and enders. Suddenly, the pillowcases were done! More than 6 months early! WTH?<\/p>\n<p>Now they get to hang around waiting for November. I plan to write cards and package them up now so they are ready to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke about the pillowcases I wanted to make for &#8216;new&#8217; family members that have joined since the last time I made pillowcases for the nieces and nephews. I gathered the fabric and was planning on slowly working through the 8 I needed to make when I had time. Well, I had time at work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/christmas-pillowcase-project-continues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Pillowcase Project Continues&#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":[538],"tags":[8,128,316,201],"class_list":["post-66622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-538","tag-christmas","tag-completed-project","tag-gifts","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\/66622","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=66622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66626,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66622\/revisions\/66626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}