{"id":2090,"date":"2013-05-31T16:12:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2013-05-31T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:16:08","slug":"mid-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=2090","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is there anything with as much promise as mid-spring? \u00a0My gardens, my projects, my whole world<\/em> is all hope and possibility.<\/p>\n

I’ve completed pear #4 in my ‘Trail of Pears.’ \u00a0Each pear has brought \u00a0harder color decisions, and #4 caused me to call on the advice of both my husband and younger son. \u00a0I had every shade of gold in my yarn palette out and none of them worked. \u00a0Chris helped me let go of my preconceived notion that the pear had to be in the yellow family<\/em>. \u00a0That pear is a tan that I would never have considered if not for Chris. Now it’s finished and soon the background around pear #5 (the final pear) will be finished as well, which will mean making the final pear color choice. \u00a0I plan to be at my Wednesday Group class next week so I can get some input from all the weavers there. \u00a0Whew!<\/p>\n

When I’m not weaving the pears I’ve been spinning some silk. \u00a0Does anyone remember Carol Weymar who called herself the silk worker. I can’t find her anymore! I used to buy her handpainted silk roving, so I have a little collection of them. \u00a0I always wanted a bit more than 2 ounces from her, but she never had more than that of any given painted way. \u00a0I took this as a challenge to me to learn to spin finer, hoping to get 1,000 yards out of that 2 oz. \u00a0Well, I still can’t do it!<\/p>\n

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So, to the latest colorway which I will call ‘mid-spring’ (all the colors of a spring garden, except blue) I am adding a strand of luscious 50\/50 merino\/silk. \u00a0The merino is a warm natural color, something I might call ‘almond,’ and the silk is a shimmering white. \u00a0Spun together I’m getting a lovely shade of cream and I hope it will be stunning plied with the 100% painted silk from Carol. \u00a0I’d like to start plying right now, but I will force myself to let the newly finished merino\/silk set overnight. \u00a0Boy, I can’t wait for tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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It’s 90 degrees outside today, one of those abnormally hot spring days we sometimes have. \u00a0My basement studio is a cool respite on a day like this, and the view cool and green.<\/p>\n

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Have I mentioned that I live on the edge of a large nature preserve? May offers up so many beautiful sights there…. lady slippers are in bloom and we found a robin’s egg on the ground! There are dragon flies everywhere, and the hummingbirds arrived. \u00a0I’ve seen eagles soaring above our house.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Yes, it’s all hope and promise around here.<\/p>\n

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Is there anything with as much promise as mid-spring? \u00a0My gardens, my projects, my whole world is all hope and possibility. I’ve completed pear #4 in my ‘Trail of Pears.’ \u00a0Each pear has brought \u00a0harder color decisions, and #4 caused me to call on the advice of both my husband and younger son. \u00a0I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24,8,23,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-inspiration","category-spinning","category-spring","category-tapestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}