{"id":18,"date":"2013-06-11T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myneedlessong.com\/junk\/?p=18"},"modified":"2016-07-20T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T12:22:11","slug":"fingers-have-been-quietly-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Fingers have been quietly working&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0964.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-492 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0964-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0964\" width=\"111\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>It has been a busy end of spring here. My husband and I took a short trip to Eastern Finland just a couple of weeks ago. It was so nice to get away and see his family. The country side is gorgeous, all cloaked in the soft greens of summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0969.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-493 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0969-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0969\" width=\"114\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>I did take stitching with me, but didn&#8217;t get as much done as I wanted to. Spending time with my husband and family was a bit more important. I did get to visit a <a title=\"Joen Lanka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joenlanka.com\/1.html\">real needlework shop in Joensuu<\/a>, and replenished some of my precious DMC floss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0973.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-494 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0973-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0973\" width=\"135\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>I also finished 4 panels for a quilt that will be given to a 2nd grader in California this week. She&#8217;s facing some surgery soon, and her wonderful teacher wanted to give her a surprise.I had posted a picture of the first panel earlier&#8230; The pictures you see here are all 4 that I sent.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0992.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-496 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0992-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0992\" width=\"143\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0992-768x942.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_0992.jpg 1765w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 143px) 100vw, 143px\" \/><\/a>All four are Precious Moments. These were a lot of fun. I have not seen a picture of the finished quilt yet, but I will post one when I do.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it is back to work for me.. I have some more pretty magnets to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy end of spring here. My husband and I took a short trip to Eastern Finland just a couple of weeks ago. It was so nice to get away and see his family. The country side <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/?p=18\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[45,53],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-magnets","tag-precious-moments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myneedlessong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}