{"id":2003,"date":"2014-04-02T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2014-04-02T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T21:20:53","slug":"tidbits-from-the-homefront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2003","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the homefront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2004 \">I spoke with Jacob last night about the shirt I most recently made for him (see last post) and after altering the original pattern according to his actual measurements since his weight loss, he says it&#8217;s the best fitting shirt he owns.\u00a0 He said he&#8217;s worn it no less than 5 times to work and wishes all his shirts fit this well.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m excited to make more for him and I already have fabric on hand!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2004\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 500px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Winding-Ways-4-2-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2004 \" alt=\"Winding Ways as of 4-2-14\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Winding-Ways-4-2-14.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winding Ways as of 4-2-14<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been hand quilting the Winding Ways top and finished the main body last night.\u00a0 Today, I&#8217;ve begun marking the border to start quilting tonight.\u00a0 This photo kinda shows the circular quilting.\u00a0 Pardon the grungy marks.\u00a0 Hopefully, the next picture of this quilt will show it finished and laundered.\u00a0 Because I like it so much, I haven&#8217;t decided if it will be kept or gifted.<\/p>\n<p>Except for some severe storms, things have been fairly quiet around here.\u00a0 The storms have caused some damage to Network equipment but it is slowly being repaired.\u00a0 We could definitely do with less lightning but we&#8217;re glad to see Spring has finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with Jacob last night about the shirt I most recently made for him (see last post) and after altering the original pattern according to his actual measurements since his weight loss, he says it&#8217;s the best fitting shirt he owns.\u00a0 He said he&#8217;s worn it no less than 5 times to work and<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2003\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}