{"id":3910,"date":"2016-11-21T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T16:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2017-11-17T21:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T02:19:02","slug":"back-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/back-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Need to get back to work. This has not been a pleasant month. Been doing things I can do by rote, dealing with my classes and students, and taking more long walks in the woods. <\/p>\n

Signed up for a workshop on little looms with Rebecca Mezoff<\/a>. Got inspired after doing the small weaving with the dyed yarns<\/a> I had used to wrap my fabric bundles and while I’m pleased with my result I realize I need a whole lot of brushing up\u2014also for some reason I’m terrible with half hitches… Seem simple enough when I try them in an isolated situation but then on the loom…. think it just takes doing, and doing and doing – like everything else.
\nSome of the students in this course are posting beautiful work…got my work cut out for me.<\/p>\n

I’m starting with the small frame I used with the dyed handspun and have ordered a sm Hokett Loom which should arrive this week. That’s exciting. Long story short\u2014workshops always shake me out of a bad place and get me going. So here’s hoping it helps now.<\/p>\n

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\nStarting anew and finishing up the old<\/p>\n

I’m also finishing up the looooong green warp I have on the loom using the Moorman Technique – which is sloooow for me and I’m getting back to my stitches.<\/p>\n

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Oh, and working on some drawing. Here is the start of a charcoal drawing of leaves— from the long walks in the woods.
\nand then there’s my painting…<\/p>\n

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Need to get back to work. This has not been a pleasant month. Been doing things I can do by rote, dealing with my classes and students, and taking more long walks in the woods. Signed up for a workshop on little looms with Rebecca Mezoff. Got inspired after doing the small weaving with the… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,388,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","category-dyeing","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3919,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}