{"id":199,"date":"2011-12-13T18:20:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:29:58","slug":"small-weaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Small weaving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hard to say what’s so appealing about weaving. My skills and knowledge are nonexistent (as of yet). It takes a long time. But still…so satisfying. <\/p>\n

When I was 9 or 10 I intuitively figured out that cloth didn’t grow on trees and weaving was something that a person ought to be able to do. I think I figured this out because someone gave me a “loopers” kit, a tiny plastic loom and some stretchy loops of fabric with which I made a potholder.<\/p>\n

Still, I wanted to weave something on my own, without a kit. I had a pink, yellow, and purple table, and I wrapped my mother’s yellow knitting yarn around the legs. Then, awkwardly, I wove in pink and purple, probably wrapping it around three or four strands of the yellow yarn at a time. (It didn’t occur to me that I was working with the same colors as were painted on the table, but that’s how I remember it now.) <\/p>\n

It bulged unevenly, loose threads hanging out everywhere, not quite long enough for a belt or wide enough for a wall hanging, but still it was a thing<\/em>, some sort of thing that the yarn hadn’t been before I got my hands on it. <\/p>\n

There was a crafts table at school, laden with I can’t remember what, but it all looked the way that it was supposed to look. Probably hand thrown pots, macrame, tidily executed embroideries. When I put my weavy thing on the table, the woman running the show didn’t know what it was or why I was handing to her. Once I explained that it was for exhibit, though, she put it out on the table with a little card with my name on it, and I was proud.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Hard to say what’s so appealing about weaving. My skills and knowledge are nonexistent (as of yet). It takes a long time. But still…so satisfying. When I was 9 or 10 I intuitively figured out that cloth didn’t grow on trees and weaving was something that a person ought to be able to do. I … Continue reading Small weaving<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurashefler.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}