{"id":99,"date":"2011-02-15T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=99"},"modified":"2011-02-15T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T17:21:10","slug":"babas-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Baba’s Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have just come back from a week in Switzerland to celebrate my dad’s 75th birthday.<\/p>\n

It was quite funny because I knew ages ago that I wanted to go home for that occasion and was waiting for Master to book his holiday so that we could book flights and a hotel (my parents live in a flat with no guest bedroom). I thought about which suitcases we were going to bring and what I was going to pack. I thought that I had thought of everything until I realised in a panic that I had forgotten one small but very crucial detail: a gift for Baba.<\/p>\n

What do you give to someone who answers “nothing” when you ask him what he would like for his birthday? Well I thought about it for a little while and came up with the idea of giving him a patchwork cushion for his afternoon nap. He loves to lie on the sofa after lunch with a cup of coffee, two biscuits and the newspaper and a whole pile of cushions under him.<\/p>\n

I remembered a drawing Little Miss Bossy-Boots had made of a snail, dug it out and copied it onto some fabric. Then I sat down to embroider it. Luckily it didn’t take very long and I could then start with the patchwork. My parents have a red quilt on the sofa to protect it from the cats and I therefore decided to go with blues and neutrals with a little dash of red. And here it is:<\/p>\n

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I love it and I believe my dad likes it too. I haven’t done patchwork in a long time but this project was so much fun that I’m planning on making new cushion covers for our sofa as soon as I find some nice materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have just come back from a week in Switzerland to celebrate my dad’s 75th birthday. It was quite funny because I knew ages ago that I wanted to go home for that occasion and was waiting for Master to book his holiday so that we could book flights and a hotel (my parents live… Continue Reading Baba’s Gift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"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=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}