{"id":959,"date":"2012-05-28T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=959"},"modified":"2012-05-28T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T02:47:27","slug":"mad-stitching-and-relaxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Mad Stitching and Relaxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/wpid-DSC04105-2012-05-28-18-30.jpg\" alt=\"wpid-DSC04105-2012-05-28-18-30.jpg\" width=\"504\" height=\"602\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I have been sewing like a mad woman.  I have completed 6 more quilt tops (8 total this month), 7 quilt backs and 8 binding strips.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be busy quilting all of these for the next few month.  <\/p>\n<p>Sewing quilt tops has been an ideal activity to relieve stress and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brought me several tops closer to my goal of making throw size quilts for holiday gifts this year.  <\/p>\n<p>Giveaway Day was lots of fun this year.  Thank you all for ideas on relieving stress.  The winner of the Creative Girl Art Quilt Kit is Jessica with comment 136!<\/p>\n<p>Today has been all about relaxing so I can begin the work week tomorrow with a clear and calm mind.  Exercise, sewing, cooking and stopping to enjoy nature seem to be an ideal combination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been sewing like a mad woman. I have completed 6 more quilt tops (8 total this month), 7 quilt backs and 8 binding strips. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be busy quilting all of these for the next few month. Sewing quilt tops has been an ideal activity to relieve stress and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brought me several tops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.believemagic.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}