{"id":10119,"date":"2010-12-07T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T02:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=10119"},"modified":"2012-04-15T00:39:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T04:39:34","slug":"heirloom-ornament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/07\/heirloom-ornament\/","title":{"rendered":"Heirloom Ornament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I would love to have a\u00c2\u00a0 tree loaded with heirloom Christmas balls.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is already loaded with ornaments made by my children and grandchildren and other special keepsake decorations.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I enjoyed making this one by hand while\u00c2\u00a0 taking a break from holiday machine sewing.<\/p>\n

The styrofoam ball was simply divided into four parts, then three\u00c2\u00a0quarters were filled with puffing.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The fourth features a\u00c2\u00a0shadow embroidery design done by hand.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The sections are marked off with beading and satin ribbon.\u00c2\u00a0 After trying to hide the pins necessary to hold the fabric in place, I finally decided to use colored pins and make them look like a part of the design.<\/p>\n

Usually, I line up all my supplies in advance but this time I did not think that far ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 It is so much easier to match floss to pin heads or ribbon or whatever, than to do it in reverse.\u00c2\u00a0 I was lucky to have pins just the right color to\u00c2\u00a0coordinate with the green leaves, though I had to use some white ones along the puffing sections.<\/p>\n

I really do enjoy handwork, but there is always such a shortage of time.\u00c2\u00a0 So this indulgence was like a stolen pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But then, at this busy time of year, I guess we all deserve a little indulgence.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I’m sure we do. I’m going to get a Dove dark chocolate right now–or is that too much indulgence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would love to have a\u00c2\u00a0 tree loaded with heirloom Christmas balls.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is already loaded with ornaments made by my children and grandchildren and other special keepsake decorations.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I enjoyed making this one by hand while\u00c2\u00a0 taking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,28,43,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10119"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22211,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10119\/revisions\/22211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}