{"id":616,"date":"2021-03-23T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T11:13:59","slug":"free-hugs-karl-der-kaktus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/23\/free-hugs-karl-der-kaktus\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Hugs + Karl der Kaktus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been cruising through the box of UFOs. I&#8217;m pretty sure I stole this idea from a child&#8217;s T-shirt. I was never happy with my French Knots before my accident, but now after months of rehab I&#8217;m still not happy with my French Knots. \ud83d\ude09 There are two more cacti in the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"981\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/freehugstwo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/freehugstwo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/freehugstwo-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/freehugstwo-768x753.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>Free Hugs, 4.5&#8243; x 4.75&#8243;<br>NFS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karl here is one of those pincushions that were trendy when I still lived in Indiana, but I never got around to making one until now. I followed the directions from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deschdanja.ch\/kaktus-aus-filz-der-zweite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.deschdanja.ch\/kaktus-aus-filz-der-zweite\/\">Swiss blog<\/a>; if you don&#8217;t Deutsch you can probably figure it out from the illustrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/karl1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/karl1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/karl1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption>Bad Handy Foto \u2122<br>Karl der Kaktus<br>NFS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can&#8217;t actually use him as a pincushion because I stuffed him too hard (with bits of quilt batting leftover from other projects&#8211;I&#8217;m not a &#8220;hoarder&#8221;, I&#8217;m &#8220;thrifty&#8221;) but he&#8217;s all he needs to be as he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m going to make another one, just to get Mr Radish all riled up about the plural of <em>Kaktus<\/em>, which was changed in the spelling reform of 1996 without his permission. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kaktusse!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Das hei\u00dft Kakteen!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ne! Ich meine schon dich!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[26,28,27],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stitching","tag-cactus","tag-quiltlet","tag-stitching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radishthegreat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}