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I looked at the sewing machine and found an overlock stitch that I think would have worked. But I just couldn\u2019t do it. Too alien to the nature of these patch houses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I tried a hoop but it’s hard to get the cloth onto it. Maybe a bigger one would have worked better but I only have a small one and two huge ones (hand-me-downs). So it\u2019s stitched mostly in my lap. Some tension issues but not bad. I had to redo the chimney on the one above. There’s still a pucker there, but it’s smaller than it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The jaunty roof line makes me smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This one has a purple lawn in front and a tiny doorknob.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Working on these makes me feel good. It’s a strange thing. I can’t fully explain it. There’s a drive there. A friend commented that this looked like a lot of work. Well, yeah, but it doesn’t feel that way. I don’t know if anything will come of these, but I’m enjoying them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ve decided to handstitch the houses on to the backgrounds. I have three done, almost four. The colors look washed out in the photos below. They are much more interesting in person, I think....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[150],"tags":[409],"class_list":["post-12603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-golden-houses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6849.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12611,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12603\/revisions\/12611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/img_6849.jpg\")
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