{"id":13138,"date":"2020-07-20T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:38:01","slug":"daily_2014_-_sewing_in_the_garden_sofa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/daily_2014_-_sewing_in_the_garden_sofa\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2014 &#8211; sewing in the garden sofa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2014_sewing_stuff.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI put the final touches to the paint on the garden sofa yesterday (or was it the day before?). It feels like new, especially after Eric added a diagonal crosspiece to strengthen its construction. I used to be cautious whenever I handled it. Now I carried it up from the basement on my own (the family is still away) and it didn&#8217;t flex or wobble at all.<\/p>\n<p>The sofa is back in its spot on the deck &#8211; right on one edge, where it gets shade from the cherry tree in the morning, and from the house the rest of the day. I like reading the morning newspaper there. It&#8217;s also a nice spot for sewing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve cut up the second tablecloth and now I&#8217;m hemming all those new napkins. By hand. I&#8217;m not entirely sure why I&#8217;m doing this by hand. It&#8217;s inefficient as heck and it&#8217;s going to be taking forever, but somehow it just feels right. Machine hemming vintage linen would simply be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The first tablecloth yielded 8 napkins with a total of 16 edges to hem, since I got so many edges for free. This one yields 16 napkins with a total of 48 edges. (4 napkins with 2 edges each, 8 with 3 edges and 4 with all 4 edges raw.) That&#8217;s a lot of hemming. Good thing I&#8217;m on vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put the final touches to the paint on the garden sofa yesterday (or was it the day before?). It feels like new, especially after Eric added a diagonal crosspiece to strengthen its construction. I used to be cautious whenever I handled it. Now I carried it up from the basement on my own (the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14057,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions\/14057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}