{"id":2049,"date":"2014-05-16T01:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:09:34","slug":"i-may-have-been-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"I may have been quiet…."},"content":{"rendered":"

…but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing stuff!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Shirt #5 (gingham)<\/p><\/div>\n

Each morning, I head toward the garden to harvest the day’s snow peas.\u00a0 Because we planted only a few plants, it takes several day’s pickings to make a dish.\u00a0 My favorite is steamed snow peas, spinach, mushrooms, carrots and shrimp served over flavored jasmine rice.\u00a0 I can’t think of anything more tasty!\u00a0 DH and I both LOVE it!\u00a0 I’ll be making it again this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve continued sewing shirts for Jacob.\u00a0 This is the newest creation, made using black\/white gingham originally purchased for repairing an antique quilt.\u00a0 Since I bought WAY more than needed for the quilt, I decided to make a shirt with the extra fabric.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an attempt to make something different, I cut 1\/2 of the left front on the bias and attached with a French seam.\u00a0 I then cut the pocket on the bias and placed it so it would align with the bias panel.\u00a0 By doing this, one half of the pocket nearly disappears.\u00a0 I also cut the back yoke and yoke lining on the bias for further interest.\u00a0 The inner collar stand is a black printed fabric.\u00a0 The seams are flat felled so no raw edges exist.\u00a0 It may be a busy shirt but it’s well made.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve also been doing some extra cooking.\u00a0 Instead of making the usual 10-12 entrees on our normal rotation, I’ve been checking out and trying new recipes.\u00a0 Thus far, we’ve REALLY liked everything I’ve tried!\u00a0 After preparing a new dish, I make changes I feel will improve the flavor and soon, make it again.\u00a0 When I’m completely satisfied with the improvements, I type it for my own recipe book and include photos.\u00a0 Along with my old tried-n-true entrees, I share these new recipes with family and friends.\u00a0 I do enjoy cooking (and eating) good food!<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s about all going on around here.\u00a0 I’ve had a couple of roofers come out to give us estimates for a new roof.\u00a0 Gosh, LOTS of money!\u00a0 I continue to read each day and usually find time to work on a quilt and watch movies.\u00a0 The days are always filled.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’re looking forward to a weekend visit from Jacob.\u00a0\u00a0 Can hardly wait to see him!<\/span><\/p>\n

Shirl<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but it doesn’t mean I haven’t been doing stuff! Each morning, I head toward the garden to harvest the day’s snow peas.\u00a0 Because we planted only a few plants, it takes several day’s pickings to make a dish.\u00a0 My favorite is steamed snow peas, spinach, mushrooms, carrots and shrimp served over flavored jasmine rice.\u00a0 I (continue reading…) <\/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":[12,11,14,15,10,39,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049"}],"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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}