{"id":1599,"date":"2013-04-28T20:15:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1599"},"modified":"2013-04-28T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T17:09:21","slug":"day-seven-4kcbwday7-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2013\/04\/day-seven-4kcbwday7-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Seven {4kcbwday7 Looking Forward}"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where do I want my crafting to be in a years time? Or the actual question which has been driving me up the wall recently, where do I as a person want to be?\u00a0 My crafting is not separate from myself.\u00a0 It is not an extension that is not affected by who and how I am.\u00a0 It is who I am, it is what I do.\u00a0 Crafters are people who will look at things and automatically think I can make that, or how did they make that, and actually go out looking for an answer.\u00a0 Even if they never make the things, that is how their brains work.\u00a0 They are intrigued by details, they look for signs of workmanship and finesse.\u00a0 If you sew, you will turn garments inside out and look at how seams were finished.\u00a0 If you knit, you will make your friends stand still while you look at the stitch pattern on their new cardigan.\u00a0 I digress.<\/p>\n

So, back to the main issue at hand.\u00a0 I have been improving my technique.\u00a0 I can now knit without really tensioning my yarn.\u00a0 This for me was a game changer.\u00a0 My hands would cramp up after an hour or so of knitting or crocheting.\u00a0 I hold my yarn the same way for crocheting and knitting, it just hangs there.\u00a0 If you have cramp issues try different ways of holding your yarn it might help.<\/p>\n

\"Tensioning<\/a><\/p>\n

I believe that if you can knit and purl you can do all kinds of knitting.\u00a0 Everything else is just another variation of that.\u00a0 The things I do want to improve are my photography, pattern writing and my design.\u00a0 I want to design bolder things, write them out better and take amazing pictures of them.<\/p>\n

I want to lose weight so I can model the things I make without feeling subconscious.\u00a0 That is related to my crafting in a round about way, I will sometimes shy of certain things because of fearing they might make me look bulky or boxy.\u00a0 See what I mean, about how everything is related.\u00a0 I might even shy of certain colors because I feel they will attract too much attention.<\/p>\n

I also want to get better at cables, fairisle and intarsia.\u00a0 And maybe even learn to spin properly.<\/p>\n

That is it folks, the week is over, it was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where do I want my crafting to be in a years time? Or the actual question which has been driving me up the wall recently, where do I as a person want to be?\u00a0 My crafting is not separate from myself.\u00a0 It is not an extension…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[235],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-4kcbwday7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-pN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}