{"id":3800,"date":"2009-06-23T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:34:43","slug":"sew-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/06\/23\/sew-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Sew Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday, I&#8217;m getting a sewing machine! Does anybody have recommendations of books for beginners? My last encounter with machine sewing was in 7th grade, when I managed to sew through my thumb with the machine and couldn&#8217;t figure out patterns. I think I failed that unit; I certainly came out of the experience hating to sew. I&#8217;m looking to sew simple things &#8212; small pillows, crafts.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.do?product_id=4764723\">Brother 25-stitch Free-Arm Sewing Machine, XL-2600i<\/a>, which was well-reviewed by Consumer Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my birthday, I&#8217;m getting a sewing machine! Does anybody have recommendations of books for beginners? My last encounter with machine sewing was in 7th grade, when I managed to sew through my thumb with the machine and couldn&#8217;t figure out patterns. I think I failed that unit; I certainly came out of the experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,214,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-domestic-arts","category-education","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}