{"id":10069,"date":"2026-03-25T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=10069"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:26:11","slug":"stitchery-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=10069","title":{"rendered":"Stitchery Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

It feels a bit weird to be making progress on that cross stitch kit I bought back in 2004.\u00a0 Yesterday, I finished the bulk of the stitching on the main part of the image and started on the back stitching that creates a shadow around the butterfly and scroll. Then disaster struck! I was almost done when the very last of the dark gold thread when it bunched up and then broke as I was trying to straighten it out. So, now I am stuck having to go to Michael’s tonight to see if I can find some matching thread. If I can’t, then I am going to take out all the dark gold stitches and replace them so that everything matches. Two steps forward and three steps back, it seems.<\/p>\n

Before the disaster …
\n\"Stitchery<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of Michael’s … the other day, I found (and purchased) this adorable donut kit. I can’t ever be accused of becoming obsessed once I get started on or rediscover a hobby.
\n\"Cute<\/a><\/p>\n

And speaking of being obsessed … I can’t stop adding Hello ads to this post<\/strong><\/a> from last week. New ones keep popping up constantly! It’s the eye candy gift that keeps on giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It feels a bit weird to be making progress on that cross stitch kit I bought back in 2004.\u00a0 Yesterday, I finished the bulk of the stitching on the main part of the image and started on the back stitching that creates a shadow around the butterfly and scroll. Then disaster struck! I was almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-2Cp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10073,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10069\/revisions\/10073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}