{"id":1087,"date":"2008-06-02T21:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.52.55.152\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2008-06-03T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:34:55","slug":"happy-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=1087","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barnabee&#8217;s Quest has finally ended and he has found the sweetest flowers in the land&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=10167&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\"\/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I can hardly believe that it&#8217;s finished!  It&#8217;s blocking as I type this, in fact.  I liked the specialty stitches in this one, as I do in any band sampler.  My least favorite parts to stitch were the over 1 bits, but they turned out to be my favorite parts of the piece.  That and the backstitched beasties &#8211; the snails, hummingbirds and caterpillars.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the hard part, the finishing.  I want to make sure it&#8217;s as close to perfect as I can imagine, since I went to the trouble of buying the tassel topper and bell pull hardware that specifically go with this design.  I also bought the finishing kit for it, so I now have everything I need except for the pearl cotton for the cording and the tassel.  I&#8217;ll place an order for this in the near future, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here are some more photos.  Sorry they aren&#8217;t the best, but I had to take them with the flash.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=10170&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=10172&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=10174&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=10163&#038;g2_serialNumber=1\"\/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><em>Edited to add: The charts are now up for grabs to anyone who wants them.  Trades are welcomed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnabee&#8217;s Quest has finally ended and he has found the sweetest flowers in the land&#8230; I can hardly believe that it&#8217;s finished! It&#8217;s blocking as I type this, in fact. I liked the specialty stitches in this one, as I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=1087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}