{"id":9497,"date":"2020-05-05T07:47:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2020-05-05T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:08:52","slug":"a-weaving-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/a-weaving-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"A weaving interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weaving is so cool. I really like it, although I feel uneasy with the newness of it and the seemingly vast amount of techniques, lore, and materials out there. Susan Barrett Merrill&#8217;s book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weavingalife.com\/tools-downloads\/#weavingalifebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Art of Weaving a Life<\/a><\/em> is grounding me in a series of projects. <a href=\"https:\/\/rebeccamezoff.com\/weaving-tapestry-on-little-looms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rebecca Mezoff&#8217;s online class on Little Looms<\/a> has been invaluable for confidence-building. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afieldguidetoneedlework.com\/\">Sarah Swett&#8217;s blog<\/a> just makes me want to keel over with the lovely inspiration of her work.<\/p>\n<p>Progress: my doll body is off the loom and stitched with a rock in the base so it will stand. A &#8220;rustic&#8221; weaving with warp threads showing, uneven wefts, lumpy selvages, and unmatched stripes (even though I attempted to match them). But I love how she stands up! Simple pleasures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9871.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9871.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9871-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9496\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9870.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9870.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/img_9870-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I need to make the arms, head, hair, and accessories. Should be fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weaving is so cool. I really like it, although I feel uneasy with the newness of it and the seemingly vast amount of techniques, lore, and materials out there. Susan Barrett Merrill&#8217;s book The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[392,390,391],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weaving","tag-doll","tag-journey-loom","tag-key-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}