{"id":959,"date":"2009-02-08T23:29:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T04:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T04:30:54","slug":"shes-crafty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/shes-crafty\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s Crafty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My maternal Grandmother, after years of an arthritis induced break from knitting, is making sweaters again. She started with baby sized ones and recently finished a full sized one for my sister. I asked her what brought on this return to the world of knitting (thinking that she’d tell me about some new arthritis medication or pain reliever) and she replied, simply,<\/p>\n

“Your grandfather told me that it’s good for my soul.”<\/p>\n

As a fellow crafter, that made perfect sense to me. Spending time focusing on a task, working with your hands, making something beautiful out of raw materials. Knitting, sewing, gluing little pieces of paper together… it’s practically a meditative process.<\/p>\n

Today I practically attained sewing and paper product induced enlightenment.<\/p>\n

I will show you pictures of my inadvertently patriotic quilt when I have more of it done. It’s looking damn good. And red. White. And blue.<\/p>\n

(I’m working on making it look a little bit less like the Fourth of July).<\/p>\n

I also got all nostalgic today and decided to make a bunch of Valentines Day cards. Witness the partial fruits of my labors. I like the strawberry ones the best.<\/p>\n

I hope people like them.<\/p>\n

In between napping and crafting this weekend, we went out with some friends for drinks and just barely missed this<\/a>. Good times.<\/p>\n

Did any of you do anything exciting this weekend?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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