{"id":9770,"date":"2014-01-30T22:31:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=9770"},"modified":"2014-02-01T22:57:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T22:57:07","slug":"ex-ca-womens-sewing-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/ex-ca-womens-sewing-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CA Women&#8217;s Sewing Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Written 01 February 2014]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I realized some time ago that I was long past due hosting a sewing club for the Ex-Californian Women, but holiday stress, illnesses, and scheduling difficulties pushed it to the end of January. \u00a0(Turns out <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/sewing-club-for-ex-californians\/\">I last hosted a club in November 2012<\/a>, ahem!).<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, everybody but one guest was busy until 9 pm, so we had a good long cozy chat. \u00a0This was great because we&#8217;d been trying to meet up since the beginning of December, but been thwarted <em>three<\/em> times by various illnesses the day before&#8230;!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9771\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9771\" alt=\"Solla in the house!  Everybody else arrived some thirty minutes later, at which point I'd long since forgotten about the camera.  Oops!\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1601.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1601.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_1601-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9771\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Solla in the house! Everybody else arrived some thirty minutes later, at which point I&#8217;d long since forgotten about the camera. Oops!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The foodstuffs this time were a &#8216;coconut cake&#8217; from a children&#8217;s Disney cook book that I&#8217;d made the night before (Ingredients: 4 egg whites, lots of powdered sugar, and coconut flakes; creme had dark chocolate, butter, more powdered sugar, and 4 yolks.), yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/recipe\/apple-crisp-with-oat-topping\/\">apple crisp<\/a>\u00a0(with half the brown sugar), crepes, fruits, hot chocolate sauce, and whipped creme. \u00a0Oh, and some cheeses and crackers.<\/p>\n<p>We had a great time, and just to dredge up some memories, I set our TV to display random photos from our California years. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Written 01 February 2014] I realized some time ago that I was long past due hosting a sewing club for the Ex-Californian Women, but holiday stress, illnesses, and scheduling difficulties pushed it to the end of January. \u00a0(Turns out I last hosted a club in November 2012, ahem!). For some reason, everybody but one guest<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/ex-ca-womens-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-9770","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\/9770","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=9770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9774,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9770\/revisions\/9774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}