{"id":10441,"date":"2012-07-23T06:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2012-07-28T06:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T13:50:30","slug":"on-july-23rd-2012-knitting-up-a-blue-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2012\/07\/23\/on-july-23rd-2012-knitting-up-a-blue-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"On July 23rd, 2012, KNITTING UP A BLUE STORM…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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a few days worth of knitting featuring hat, scarf, vest, in shades of blue<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool into yarn<\/a>\u00a0by Lisa Anne Auerbach in March at the Princeton Student Colony<\/a>, then knitting lessons at my London Sundown Schoolhouse of Queer Home Ec<\/a>\u00a0in June, followed by river-washing, carding,\u00a0plant-dying, and crocheting kilos of local sheep’s wool in Abruzzo for the first edition of European Domestic Integrities<\/a>, and with a massive bag of wool following me back to LA, it has been my gateway drug to yarn shopping at some cool neighborhood knitting stores (like Skein<\/a> in Pasadena,\u00a0The Little Knittery<\/a> in Atwater, and Wildfiber<\/a> in Santa Monica) – where I have been drawn to the 100% natural fibers like linens, wools, and cottons – but mostly in shades of blue, especially electrics and indigos; sets of bamboo needles in all sizes (the fattest ones a few steps down from baseball bats are the most satisfying); plus some circular needles (knitting\u00a0accouterment\u00a0so beautiful to have around, and so familiar to me having grown up in the house of a knitter) being deployed for some patternless knitting experiments, some of which are making me excited to wear for cold travels (the massive trapezoid scarf of 5 blues, and five fibers) and others which might have to be\u00a0unraveled\u00a0and reknit into something else (a too tight vest that seemed like a good idea at the time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…is one reason I have been slow to post things here as they happen, having been taken over by knitting-mania which started with learning how to spin wool\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[718],"class_list":["post-10441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10447,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10441\/revisions\/10447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}