{"id":1438,"date":"2008-08-02T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2008-08-02T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T17:02:51","slug":"i-lovehate-my-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/i-lovehate-my-sewing-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"I love\/hate my sewing machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/2725760750\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3274\/2725760750_83791baafa.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/2725760750\/\">I love\/hate my sewing machine<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/angrypirate\/\">Alanna Spence<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this machine a long time, since just after my dad died in<br \/>\n1992.  It&#8217;s seen me through some tough times and its helped me make some<br \/>\npretty great stuff. With this machine I&#8217;ve made:<\/p>\n<p>About 10 quilts<br \/>\n2 halloween costumes<br \/>\nA half dozen skirts<br \/>\nCountless little pouches for cameras, glasses, etc<br \/>\n50 or so fleece hats<br \/>\nBaby bplankets for several people<br \/>\nA divider wall for flickerbox<br \/>\nA giant demin bag for carrying easel and cavas to france<br \/>\nMy wedding dress<br \/>\n20 beach bags for the wedding<br \/>\nCurtains for my old truck<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m sure many more projects I can&#8217;t think of at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>I love this machine, but I am constantly re threading it. The bobbin<br \/>\ngets tangled all the time. The thing is making me crazy. Yet it seems<br \/>\nthe moment I make the decision &#8220;ok, that&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m getting a new<br \/>\nmachine.&#8221; It starts to behave again. What am I going to do? I guess I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nhave to keep sewing on it til it sputters its last dieing breath. It was<br \/>\nthere for me when imy bobbin was constantly getting tangled. Its the<br \/>\nleast I can do.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love\/hate my sewing machine Originally uploaded by Alanna Spence I&#8217;ve had this machine a long time, since just after my dad died in 1992. It&#8217;s seen me through some tough times and its helped me make some pretty great stuff. With this machine I&#8217;ve made: About 10 quilts 2 halloween costumes A half dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}