{"id":988,"date":"2012-02-11T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=988"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T12:15:31","slug":"pincushion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Pincushion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read my previous<a title=\"Lucky me!\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=974\" target=\"_blank\"> post<\/a> in which I showed off the lovely pincushion I won?<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the giveaway Ali posted a <a title=\"Pincushion Tutorial\" href=\"http:\/\/veryberryhandmade.co.uk\/2012\/01\/27\/granny-at-the-pictures-pincushion-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a> for it on her blog <a title=\"Very Berry Handmade\" href=\"http:\/\/veryberryhandmade.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Very Berry Handmade<\/a> and I loved it so much that I said I was going to make one regardless of whether I won or not. I did&#8230;and here it is with Ali&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_0012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-991\" title=\"Very Berry Pincushions\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_0012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cotton yarn I used is a bit thicker which means that my crocheted square is a bit denser. Maybe I should have used a bigger hook?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_00051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-989\" title=\"Grey pincushion front\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_00051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still very pleased with it. The fabric I used is a dusky lilac with white polka dots. I love those colours together. The reverse of the pincushion is just as pretty:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_0010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-990\" title=\"Grey pincushion reverse\" src=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/DSC_0010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you like it? I thought as I love the pincushion I won so much I would give this one away (hopefully to be loved as much as I love mine). The first person to write a comment on this post will receive the pincushion and I&#8217;m happy to send it anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Edited to say:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for your kind comments about my pincushion which will be sent to Jane on Monday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you read my previous post in which I showed off the lovely pincushion I won? At the time of the giveaway Ali posted a tutorial for it on her blog Very Berry Handmade and I loved it so much that I said I was going to make one regardless of whether I won or&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=988\">Continue Reading Pincushion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[232,360],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}