{"id":15795,"date":"2016-09-23T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15795"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:25:27","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15795","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15796\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts1.jpg\" alt=\"t-gifts1\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts1-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday! Hmmmm, so it looks like the best I&#8217;m able to manage is a once-a-week posting while juggling other projects. I still have a number of completed sewing I want to document here,\u00a0and I&#8217;m starting with this little gift package I made weeks and weeks ago. Unless I record them here, they will be forgotten forever given my spotty memory. In fact, they had completely slipped my mind\u00a0until I happened to see the photos as I was looking for\u00a0pictures of another sewing project.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, every day I count my lucky stars that I have the most wonderful editors. They shower me with encouragement and gifts and general good vibes, and naturally, I want very much to return the favor.\u00a0As a thank you for the many, many generous presents\u00a0that my editor Tegan continues to surprise me with, I made her some tea towels from this pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/drygoodsdesignonline.com\/collections\/fabrics?page=2\" target=\"_blank\">striped linen<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/drygoodsdesignonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drygoods<\/a>. I love this toweling fabric so much that I made myself some tea towels as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15797\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts2.jpg\" alt=\"t-gifts2\" width=\"800\" height=\"732\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/t-gifts2-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also embroidered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Little-Kunoichi-Ninja-Sanae-Ishida\/dp\/1570619549\" target=\"_blank\">Little Kunoichi<\/a> coaster. Little K is upside down there, fyi. The next book in the series is almost complete! I have to turn in cover concepts soon &#8212; actually, I&#8217;m supposed to be turning it in <em>now<\/em> (yikes), and I&#8217;m super excited about it. Like the first book, I feel like I&#8217;ve given it my all and the outcome doesn&#8217;t matter to me all that much. Coming your way Fall 2017!! Isn&#8217;t it crazy how long book publishing takes? Time for me to get back to cover concepts!<\/p>\n<p>I will see you all again some time next week; have a\u00a0fabulous weekend!<\/p>\n<p><em>What will I sew next?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s a unicorn costume*<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Not sure how to yet&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*Halloween is coming up and K wants to manifest her spirit animal&#8230;if anyone has any recommendations or suggestions on how to sew a unicorn costume, I would be eternally grateful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday! Hmmmm, so it looks like the best I&#8217;m able to manage is a once-a-week posting while juggling other projects. I still have a number of completed sewing I want to document here,\u00a0and I&#8217;m starting with this little gift package I made weeks and weeks ago. Unless I record them here, they will be forgotten forever given my spotty memory. In fact, they had completely slipped my mind\u00a0until I happened to see the photos as I was looking for\u00a0pictures of another sewing project. Anyhow, every day I count my lucky stars that I have the most wonderful editors. They shower me with encouragement and gifts and general good vibes, and naturally, I want very much to return the favor.\u00a0As a thank you for the many, many generous presents\u00a0that my editor Tegan continues to surprise me with, I made her some tea towels from this pretty striped linen from Drygoods. I love this toweling fabric so much that I made myself some tea towels as well. I also embroidered a Little Kunoichi coaster. Little K is upside down there, fyi. The next book in the series is almost complete! I have to turn in cover concepts soon &#8212; actually, I&#8217;m supposed to be turning it in now (yikes), and I&#8217;m super excited about it. Like the first book, I feel like I&#8217;ve given it my all and the outcome doesn&#8217;t matter to me all that much. Coming your way Fall 2017!! Isn&#8217;t it crazy how long book publishing takes? Time for me to get back to cover concepts! I will see you all again some time next week; have a\u00a0fabulous weekend! What will I sew next? It&#8217;s a unicorn costume* Not sure how to yet&#8230; *Halloween is coming up and K wants to manifest her spirit animal&#8230;if anyone has any recommendations or suggestions on how to sew a unicorn costume, I would be eternally grateful!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15802,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15795\/revisions\/15802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}