{"id":577,"date":"2004-03-24T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=577"},"modified":"2008-02-15T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:25:59","slug":"practice-makes-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/24\/practice-makes-pretty\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice makes pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday afternoon re-learning how to use my sewing machine. I spent half of that afternoon trying to thread the needle. I started a new project, a mini project, on a whim. I had no pattern, no instructions and no earthly clue what I was doing. I just had an idea, and I thought it could be cute. My sloppy efforts were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I decided to try one last time, and, <em>voila,<\/em> it worked! Here is the tiny fruit of my labor: a mini billfold wallet in brown corduroy lined in pink felt.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20040323_billfold_a.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"http:\/\/today.maganda.org\/jpg\/20040323_billfold_b.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the perfect size for an ID and a couple bucks, and it fits in very small handbags. In fact, I modeled it after my favorite going-out wallet, the one I take when I am going to a bar or a show or somewhere fancy and don&#8217;t want to lug everything I normally lug around with me.<\/p>\n<p>My next project? A mini tote bag, I think. I&#8217;ll have to start it sooner than later, though, before I forget how to use my sewing machine again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent Sunday afternoon re-learning how to use my sewing machine. I spent half of that afternoon trying to thread the needle. I started a new project, a mini project, on a whim. I had no pattern, no instructions and no earthly clue what I was doing. I just had an idea, and I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}