{"id":19372,"date":"2011-11-13T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=19372"},"modified":"2012-07-31T13:47:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T17:47:14","slug":"lunch-linen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/13\/lunch-linen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Linen and Free Mary Frances eBook"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS FLASH!\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0 Mary Frances Adventures Among the Thimble<\/strong><\/em> People<\/strong><\/em><\/a> sewing book is still available as a free download from this fabulous homeschooler site<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that but now you can also download–for free–the Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting\u00c2\u00a0 Book<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> These were promoted as one-day only freebies.\u00c2\u00a0 But apparently, they remain on the site for some time.<\/p>\n

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This week has been filled with delightful visits from\u00c2\u00a0 two South Carolina friends.\u00c2\u00a0 First, Terri Click (The Thrifty Needle blog<\/a>) of Conway arrived after teaching in Orlando<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll share more of that visit in a future post.\u00c2\u00a0 She snapped some pictures and\u00c2\u00a0 has posted photos of my sewing room<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 (gulp….) on her blog.<\/p>\n

Then just yesterday my high school friend Carole of Bluffton stopped by with her husband on their way to DisneyWorld.<\/p>\n

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Having planned to serve lunch on the breakfast porch, I thought it was a perfect opportunity to use this charming vintage tablecloth, which is just the right size.\u00c2\u00a0 It teamed up nicely with my favorite, everyday Blue Willow china and this robust African violet.\u00c2\u00a0 When Suzanne Sawko gave me the pot, the plant was no more than three tiny rooted starts.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it overflows the container and blooms profusely, nonstop.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m so pleased with it.<\/p>\n

As I was setting the table, it occurred to me that you might enjoy seeing this beautifully embroidered table linen.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So I grabbed my camera, unset the table and started all over again, snapping close ups and finally the set table.\u00c2\u00a0 About half way through this impromptu photo shoot, the kitchen timer started buzzing.\u00c2\u00a0 It was time to take my apple\/cranberry pie out of the oven.<\/p>\n

I did not take time to smooth out the cloth,\u00c2\u00a0 straighten the plates or line up the pieces properly.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And after all that rushing around,\u00c2\u00a0 the top crust of the pie\u00c2\u00a0 could best be described as “blackened.”\u00c2\u00a0 No one was surprised.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve never claimed to be a good cook.\u00c2\u00a0 But I do have some pretty linens and love to use them on such occasions as this.<\/p>\n

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The tablecloth appears to have been commercially hemstitched.\u00c2\u00a0 There is some puckering along two parallel sides, as if the straight of grain required reduced tension.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve often experienced this when hemstitching on my sewing machine.<\/p>\n

The padded satin stitch is beautifully executed.\u00c2\u00a0 The remaining stitches seem fairly basic but very effective in this design.\u00c2\u00a0 I love the big chunky French knots.<\/p>\n

There were no napkins with this set when I purchased it.\u00c2\u00a0 The iris napkins<\/a> I used don’t match perfectly, but seemed to fit the mood of the table setting.<\/p>\n

Do you have any special vintage linens?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you use them?\u00c2\u00a0 I’d love to see pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEWS FLASH!\u00c2\u00a0 The\u00c2\u00a0 Mary Frances Adventures Among the Thimble People sewing book is still available as a free download from this fabulous homeschooler site.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only that but now you can also download–for free–the Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting\u00c2\u00a0 Book\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,63,25,19,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372"}],"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=19372"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19372\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}