{"id":2023,"date":"2013-01-02T14:40:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2013-01-02T14:40:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:40:40","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! May 2013 be a good year for you. To be honest, I&#8217;m rather glad 2012 is over as it hasn&#8217;t been a great year for me, not catastrophic but just not great.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything has been &#8216;blah&#8217;, though, there have been some highlights too. Our holiday in Ireland in April, the<a title=\"Fat Quarterly Retreat 2012 \u2013 Part 1\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/fat-quarterly-sewing-retreat\/fat-quarterly-retreat-2012\" target=\"_blank\"> Fat Quarterly Retreat<\/a> in June, our holiday in Denmark and, of course, my trips home to Switzerland. I also have to add to this list <a title=\"Sea glass\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/sew-euro-bee-an\/sea-glass\" target=\"_blank\">my first bee<\/a>, Sew-Euro-Bee-An, and my <a title=\"Mindless Flannels\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/quilts\/mindless-flannels\" target=\"_blank\">first quilt<\/a>, Mindless Flannel, which has now been washed and dried and is lovely and soft to snuggle with.<\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;m looking forward to the Fat Quarterly Retreat, making more quilts and moving back home to Switzerland. I would like to finish as many of my WIPs as possible and I&#8217;m already on a roll as I finished my November Bee blocks yesterday (the fabric was late arriving and Linda said not to worry about finishing before Christmas).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/musings\/happy-new-year-2\/attachment\/dsc_0006-13\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2026\" alt=\"Linda's Bee Blocks\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0006-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved playing with all the Denyse Schmidt scraps Linda sent us. She asked us for simple patchwork blocks with a little extra. In one block I made a snowball and the other a simple wonky cross. Hopefully she&#8217;ll like them.<\/p>\n<p>Today I finished my shark bath mat. It&#8217;s not very big but it&#8217;s alright for me and Little Miss Bossy-Boots as our feet aren&#8217;t very big. However, I&#8217;m not sure how Master is going to cope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/musings\/happy-new-year-2\/attachment\/dsc_0002-16\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2025\" alt=\"Shark Bath Mat\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DSC_0002-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our other bath mats are white so it&#8217;s nice to have a little bit of colour in this completely white bathroom. I think I can see a couple more bath mats in my future.<\/p>\n<p>As for New Year&#8217;s resolutions, I only have one: I&#8217;m only going to buy fabric I need to finish projects as I&#8217;m trying to save up to buy an overlocker. This year I would like to sew some clothes for the Little Miss and myself. I know I can do that with my sewing machine but I would really like to make it an easy process with nice looking insides.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to look for my Spring Carnival templates. Oh yes, I tidied my sewing room and now I can&#8217;t find half of my things. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! May 2013 be a good year for you. To be honest, I&#8217;m rather glad 2012 is over as it hasn&#8217;t been a great year for me, not catastrophic but just not great. Not everything has been &#8216;blah&#8217;, though, there have been some highlights too. Our holiday in Ireland in April, the Fat&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=2023\">Continue Reading Happy New Year!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}