{"id":57,"date":"2008-06-03T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-06-03T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T22:00:00","slug":"launched-into-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":">Launched into Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>>Well, I have not managed to learn how to make a photo collage.  Everything technical is such a steep learning curve for me!<\/p>\n<p>The garden is looking quite nice&#8230;.the peonies have just opened, along with the pinks and cranes&#8217; bills and Siberian iris, while the bleeding hearts are fading.  My weld is huge and just about to bloom so I&#8217;m looking forward to some dyeing!  Hopefully I can rejuvenate my indigo vat and get some wild lime green like I saw at Vicki Fraser&#8217;s studio two years ago!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SEXCNjLY09I\/AAAAAAAAAUk\/enSrR3IkWsY\/s1600-h\/ATB7cattn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SEXCNjLY09I\/AAAAAAAAAUk\/enSrR3IkWsY\/s320\/ATB7cattn.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5207782082160939986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My catalog for ATB7 arrived in the mail just before Chris&#8217; graduation.  What a wonderful surprise to find part of Buddha&#8217;s face on the cover!  I&#8217;m very honored!<\/p>\n<p>Wedding plans abound, Convergence is just around the corner, I&#8217;ve got homework from my Pre-Columbian workshop with Susan Martin Maffei, and three tapestries in various degrees of completion (one that is still in the design stage).  My knitted kimono is almost done!  It&#8217;s sewn together and the knitted band is about 1\/2 done.  I&#8217;d like to wear it to the wedding shower in mid-June&#8230;.next weekend!  Yikes!  I&#8217;m partially done with a silk kimono style vest that tempted me at the MD Sheep and Wool.  It&#8217;s a kit from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justouryarn.com\/joy_catalog.cgi?dct=on&amp;tt=1874\"> Just Our Yarn<\/a>.  The only downer for me right now is that somehow I&#8217;ve caught a summer cold that&#8217;s been making the rounds here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Well, I have not managed to learn how to make a photo collage. Everything technical is such a steep learning curve for me! The garden is looking quite nice&#8230;.the peonies have just opened, along with the pinks and cranes&#8217; bills and Siberian iris, while the bleeding hearts are fading. My weld is huge and just [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}