{"id":3675,"date":"2015-06-14T21:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T03:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3675"},"modified":"2015-06-14T21:27:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T03:27:35","slug":"a-rug-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3675","title":{"rendered":"a rug completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i chose to complete the rug by trimming the edge back to about 5 rows past the stitching line, cutting a wedge out of the corner to cut down the bulk, then folding it back and satin stitching around the edge with a very narrow stitch in the pink..  after that i used a loose whip stitch and stitched the edging down flat to the back, catching only a stitch or two at a time so it wouldn&#8217;t show through on the front.  now it looks just like the full sized rugs i have in my house, and the little girls are thrilled.  crystal is showing it off here<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/18721884126\" title=\"The finished rug by onebluestocking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8841\/18721884126_874d32cec0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The finished rug\"><\/a><br \/>\nafter i was done someone pointed me to a great tutorial on how to finish rugs, so rather than re-inventing the wheel, i&#8217;ll just link to it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janetgranger.co.uk\/tutorials\/how-to-hem-a-carpet\/\" title=\"how to hem a mini rug\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i chose to complete the rug by trimming the edge back to about 5 rows past the stitching line, cutting a wedge out of the corner to cut down the bulk, then folding it back and satin stitching around the edge with a very narrow stitch in the pink.. after that i used a loose whip stitch and stitched the edging down flat to the back, catching only a stitch or two at a time so it wouldn&#8217;t show through on the front. now it looks just like the full sized rugs i have in my house, and the little&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,356],"tags":[97,4,389,191,357,66,359,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}