{"id":744,"date":"2007-10-24T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/a-quick-interruption-in-regular-programming\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T18:01:26","slug":"a-quick-interruption-in-regular-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/a-quick-interruption-in-regular-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"a quick interruption in regular programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have needle issues.\u00c2\u00a0 I am picky about what I use- some I like to use for wool embroidery, different ones when I am using cotton floss.\u00c2\u00a0 I always seems to be dropping or misplacing them and then can’t find them again.\u00c2\u00a0 I get so distracted if I have to go looking for more needles or threading and unthreading them constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 In the middle of working on one of the babies this morning, I’d had it.\u00c2\u00a0 I needed a better system.<\/p>\n

My idea was to have a strip pincushion.\u00c2\u00a0 I could stick all the right type of needles into it at the beginning of a project.\u00c2\u00a0 I could pre-thread several so I wouldn’t be starting and stopping the flow.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d have a place to store my needles that were threaded with a color I was finished with, until next time I needed it.<\/p>\n

A while ago, I bought a piece of 100% wool felt at Joanns fabric, but it is really too soft and I hadn’t figured out how to use it for anything.\u00c2\u00a0 I cut a strip, 18″ long and 2 inches wide.\u00c2\u00a0 I cut that into pieces 6 inches x 1 inch and piled them up.
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I stitched them together with a fairly heavy pearl cotton- very tightly.\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted it to be dense.\u00c2\u00a0 And here we go-
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phew!\u00c2\u00a0 Success! \u00c2\u00a0 It is about 3\/4 of an inch thick.\u00c2\u00a0 You could make this out of any scrap wool and I think scrap pieces of felted sweaters would be perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 This way of storing the needles has an added benefit-\u00c2\u00a0 the needles won’t get lost into it like they often do in standard pin cushions.\u00c2\u00a0 Now back to work!<\/p>\n

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This baby is finished now, but it is wet and rainy outside today, so I will take more photos tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have needle issues.\u00c2\u00a0 I am picky about what I use- some I like to use for wool embroidery, different ones when I am using cotton floss.\u00c2\u00a0 I always seems to be dropping or misplacing them and then can’t find … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}