{"id":613,"date":"2006-01-03T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2006-01-03T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T00:02:00","slug":"happy-new-year-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/happy-new-year-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/1600\/normaxmas.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/200\/normaxmas.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Happy New Year Everyone!<br \/><\/strong><br \/>The main purpose of this blog is to keep my quilting friends in touch with my current projects and to provide a venue to receive their valuable feedback. However, I will also insert the occasional non-quilt related items to keep my family and non-quilting friends interested as well.<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of a new year brings with it a renewed commitment to previous resolutions and starting over with a clean slate. I have been reflecting the last few days on last year&#8217;s resolution to finish UFOs&#8211;as many as possible. I feel I have kept that resolution&#8211;however, there are still UFOs in the pile! I listed out my UFOs last year and stopped writing at 46. The list is now down to 35 so some of those projects are now complete.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s resolution is to continue on with last year&#8217;s resolution of finishing as many UFOs as possible. However, I have added to my resolution list for this year to reduce my stash&#8211;I will only start a new project if I can utilize my existing stash. The exception will be to purchase backing fabric.<\/p>\n<p>I purchased an APQS long arm quilting machine in May this year and &#8220;Lucky&#8221; is definitely facilitating the completion of my UFOs at a much faster rate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year Everyone!The main purpose of this blog is to keep my quilting friends in touch with my current projects and to provide a venue to receive their valuable feedback. However, I will also insert the occasional non-quilt related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/01\/happy-new-year-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}