{"id":633,"date":"2026-09-03T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/?p=633"},"modified":"2026-09-03T15:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:49:22","slug":"now-comes-the-hard-part-of-the-doily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/2026\/09\/03\/now-comes-the-hard-part-of-the-doily\/","title":{"rendered":"Now comes the hard part of the Doily"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m getting close to the end! Actually, this last part is going to be the hardest and will probably take me a few days. Black-eyed Susans are not easy to make! \ud83d\ude33<br>I\u2019m using size 10 crochet cotton with a size 12 hook. The forget-me-nots were made with a size 9 hook, just in case anyone was wondering.<br>I might sell the doily when it\u2019s finished. I probably won\u2019t make another one like this, though. It\u2019s really hard on my hands.<br>Maybe the next doily will be a pineapple doily. Something that doesn\u2019t require me to think so much! \ud83d\ude02 I think my brain and my hands could both use a break! I was just looking at my doily and wonder if I should put green around the center black eyed Susan. I might make one up in green and redo just the center. It&#8217;s a little bit of a nuisance but can be done. Not one of my favorite things to do. I do not like to redo my crochet or my sewing. Crochet is my hobby. Sewing is my fun money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m getting close to the end! Actually, this last part is going to be the hardest and will probably take me a few days. Black-eyed Susans are not easy to make! \ud83d\ude33I\u2019m using size 10 crochet cotton with a size 12 hook. The forget-me-nots were made with a size 9 hook, just in case anyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/2026\/09\/03\/now-comes-the-hard-part-of-the-doily\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Now comes the hard part of the Doily&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doilybox.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}