{"id":144,"date":"2008-03-17T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T01:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-03-20T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T15:24:35","slug":"st-paddys-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"St. Paddy&#8217;s Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The snowdrops expand.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/snowdrop-20080317.jpg\" alt=\"snowdrops\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re no longer buried in snow. <\/p>\n<p>It was very warm here on Friday. As we were loading the car to head to Buffalo, I predicted that the first crocuses would be up by the time we got back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/crocus-20080317.jpg\" alt=\"first crocus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nick and I were in Buffalo to judge a regional SCA art competition (Ice Dragon). He judged metal working, and I judged fiber arts. Most years I complain about the lack of weaving entries, particularly tablet weaving. This year, there were <em>nine<\/em> weaving entries, and eight of them were tablet woven. There were no other fiber arts (spinning, weaving, dyeing, knitting, etc.) entries, which surprised me a bit. Six of the entries (by the same weaver) were brocaded tablet weaving, and absolutely spectacular. That&#8217;s a form of tablet weaving I don&#8217;t enjoy, and don&#8217;t do particularly well, but it is awfully impressive to look at.<\/p>\n<p>Laura, take a look at the second image <a href=\"https:\/\/ullam.typepad.com\/ullabenulla\/2008\/03\/sunday-inspirat.html\">here<\/a>, with the drawing and embroidery. It made me think of some of the things you&#8217;ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/randomartprojects.blogspot.com\/\">doing<\/a>, with the botanical embroidery motifs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snowdrops expand. And they&#8217;re no longer buried in snow. It was very warm here on Friday. As we were loading the car to head to Buffalo, I predicted that the first crocuses would be up by the time we got back. Nick and I were in Buffalo to judge a regional SCA art competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}