{"id":28686,"date":"2013-12-04T01:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=28686"},"modified":"2013-12-31T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T08:22:47","slug":"the-stockings-were-hung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/04\/the-stockings-were-hung\/","title":{"rendered":"The stockings were hung…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by the chimney with care,”\u00c2\u00a0 by each of my grandchildren and a few others.\u00c2\u00a0 My well-organized, got-it-together daughter and daughter-in-law saw to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Both young ladies put the finishing touches on their Christmas trees and decorations the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Me? \u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been busy making stockings and have finally finished.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m thinking maybe sometime soon I’ll get around to\u00c2\u00a0 packing up the cornucopia on the dining room table and all the fall wreaths at the doors.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I’ll decorate.<\/p>\n

A few months after Vivian Rose was born, my Rebecca gave a heads up that she decorates the day after Thanksgiving.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, Vivian Rose would need a stocking this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, I put that on my to-do list sometime in March, in the midst of Easter sewing.<\/p>\n

Tick tock tick tock…..but I lacked inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, Rebecca suggested a gingerbread theme.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I was off and running.<\/p>\n

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The body is just an inexpensive cotton with the toe, heel, cuff, and piping made from red featherwale corduroy.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The jumbo chenille rick rack that had been launguishing in my stash for several years nicely mimicked the buttercream frosting we use on gingerbread cookies.<\/p>\n

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I like little details, so the gingerbread house has their house address embroidered on a tiny rectangle of brown ultrasuede.\u00c2\u00a0 Ginger colored ultrasuede was the foundation for the gingerbread girl and\u00c2\u00a0 the house. Tiny seed beads were hand sewn to the green featherwale cord tree, a 3-dimensional bow was stiched over the bow in the design and buttons were added.\u00c2\u00a0 The peppermint pattie stepping stones were easy to resize and then place with the camera function on my Brother Quattro.<\/p>\n

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Finally, a personal message, embroidered on the inside of the cuff, is visible only when the cuff is extended.\u00c2\u00a0 And there were more stockings….but I’ll write about them later.\u00c2\u00a0 I have to go box up that cornucopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by the chimney with care,”\u00c2\u00a0 by each of my grandchildren and a few others.\u00c2\u00a0 My well-organized, got-it-together daughter and daughter-in-law saw to it.\u00c2\u00a0 Both young ladies put the finishing touches on their Christmas trees and decorations the day after Thanksgiving. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28686"}],"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=28686"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28906,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28686\/revisions\/28906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}