
{"id":4690,"date":"2018-10-28T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T19:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=4690"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T18:49:09","slug":"fiber-keeps-me-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/fiber-keeps-me-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Keeps me Sane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the world has gone to the dark side or so it seems. So much hate and violence, fanned by those who should unify and comfort and put a stop to this. I can&#8217;t paint at a time like this with angry\/sad thoughts racing through my mind. But the slowness of stitching, its zen like calming, focus on the task at hand&#8212;that&#8217;s where I burrow in and find some sanity.<\/p>\n<p>This project has been in the works for a long time&#8212;first as the long green warp woven with Theo Moorman&#8217;s Technique. Much of it involved squares. Now it&#8217;s cut apart and I&#8217;m embellishing the squares to bring out their personalities&#8212;woven portraits of time and space.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t fix the world but it allows me to gather the strength to live in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/embellish.jpg\" ><img title=\"Piling up\" src =\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/fiber\/embellish.jpg\" alt=\"Image of Embelished Squares\" width=\"\" height=\"500\"\/> <\/a><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a selection waiting to be finished and framed.<br \/>\nSome might still be worked on &#8211; they let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the world has gone to the dark side or so it seems. So much hate and violence, fanned by those who should unify and comfort and put a stop to this. I can&#8217;t paint at a time like this with angry\/sad thoughts racing through my mind. But the slowness of stitching, its zen&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/fiber-keeps-me-sane\/\">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":[417,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weaving","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690","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=4690"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4784,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4690\/revisions\/4784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}