{"id":3789,"date":"2011-05-24T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=3789"},"modified":"2011-05-26T23:36:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:36:05","slug":"sewing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sewing-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big event on Tuesday was my first hosting of a sewing club that I&#8217;ve belonged to for a decade, and got graciously invited to on our visits to Iceland for all these years. \u00a0These are some lovely lady-classmates from Junior College (Menntask\u00f3li) and friends from the University of Iceland, as well as some friends of theirs.<\/p>\n<p>This sewing club has evolved over the years to serve a (light) dinner and then desserts, but since I&#8217;m not much of a cooking enthusiast (I&#8217;m a utilitarian cook) I coaxed Finnur into making seafood soup for dinner for all of us. \u00a0I then supplemented with a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipe\/Hummingbird-Cake\/Detail.aspx\">Hummingbird Cake<\/a>&#8216; (which was <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/Recipes\/desserts\/cakes\/Main.aspx\">cake of the day at allrecipes.com<\/a>, but I used pistachios instead of walnuts) as well as crepes (&#8216;pancakes&#8217;) that we put fruit, whipped cream and melted chocolate on. \u00a0It was pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>We chatted and chatted, and overall I&#8217;d say it went pretty well! \u00a0Now I only have 8 months to plan the next one&#8230; \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3790\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_5466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3790\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3790\" title=\"IMG_5466\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_5466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_5466.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_5466-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ladies at the table.  Sadly two didn&#39;t make it, but there&#39;s always next time!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big event on Tuesday was my first hosting of a sewing club that I&#8217;ve belonged to for a decade, and got graciously invited to on our visits to Iceland for all these years. \u00a0These are some lovely lady-classmates from Junior College (Menntask\u00f3li) and friends from the University of Iceland, as well as some friends<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/sewing-club\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3789"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3789\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}