{"id":589,"date":"2006-12-24T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/589"},"modified":"2008-08-07T10:33:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T08:33:59","slug":"christmas-cross-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/589","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cross Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0can&#8217;t believe Christmas is actually here!\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday I was counting down at 23 days.\u00a0 It sort of makes me sad because I know New Years will come just as quick and then I&#8217;ll have to take down all my Christmas decorations.\u00a0 The house will seem soooo plain and boring then.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/331660801\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/162\/331660801_a9be577b9a_m.jpg\" alt=\"From the Front\" width=\"240\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>This is my latest completed crafty project.\u00a0\u00a0 I dug out a pattern book I got ages ago and decided to do some Christmas cross stitching.<\/p>\n<p>I liked this one most so decided to do it first.\u00a0\u00a0 It took me about 2-3 days to complete.\u00a0\u00a0 Once I was finished I started looking into getting it framed but after finding the one place that does it and finding out it would cost approx 100 euros to have it framed, I thought yeah right screw that and tried to think of something less expensive I could do it with.\u00a0\u00a0 So I made a little x-mas pillow!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/331660687\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/162\/331660687_75840eb644_t.jpg\" alt=\"Close up\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/331660607\/\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/148\/331660607_a82124290d_t.jpg\" alt=\"From the Side\" width=\"77\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a> <a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/breigh\/331660906\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/163\/331660906_0ae1cefd9a_t.jpg\" alt=\"From the Side\" width=\"100\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It worked out pretty well and <em>much <\/em>cheaper.\u00a0 I just used some of the red fabric I had left over from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/570\" target=\"_blank\">tree skirt<\/a> and the leftover puffy snow stuff I used for under my x-mas village and <em>voila<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The book also had a really cute x-mas teddy bear pattern, I&#8217;m working on that one at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00a0can&#8217;t believe Christmas is actually here!\u00a0 It seems like just yesterday I was counting down at 23 days.\u00a0 It sort of makes me sad because I know New Years will come just as quick and then I&#8217;ll have to take down all my Christmas decorations.\u00a0 The house will seem soooo plain and boring then. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[71,55,56,70],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-crafty-creations","tag-christmas","tag-crafts","tag-cross-stitch","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}