{"id":12371,"date":"2020-02-15T22:24:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2020-02-21T23:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T22:13:24","slug":"daily_1862_-_sewing_and_crafts_festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/02\/15\/daily_1862_-_sewing_and_crafts_festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1862 &#8211; sewing and crafts festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nI am so glad I read the newspaper this morning and that I even skimmed the pages with event listings and event ads, which I sometimes skip. Otherwise I would have missed the yearly sewing and crafts festival, and that would have been a pity.<\/p>\n<p>I spent several hours just walking around and looking at things. I barely bought anything (2 metres of fancy woven ribbon and three pairs of socks) but I came home with a whole lot of inspiration and creative energy. Just like when I go to software conferences &#8211; even when I don&#8217;t learn much, I get an incredible amount of energy.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nI was not very interested in the sewing side of the festival, other than as a curious observer. Sewing machine makers and resellers took up a lot of floor space. There was also an immense variety of fabric. Quilting is clearly a big thing &#8211; there were lots of vendors selling colourful fabrics in smallish pieces clearly meant for patchwork. Also lots of printed jersey fabrics, and I think the main target group there was mums sewing clothes for their young children.<\/p>\n<p>Mums sew, but knitting, embroidery and other such textile crafts is clearly mostly done by ladies of an, ahem, mature age. I felt quite young there.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_8.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nThere were endless amounts of crafts materials of all kinds. So many lovely yarns in so many colours! But I can&#8217;t just buy something without a plan, without knowing what I will use it for. Maybe some other year I&#8217;ll go there with some actual projects in mind and have a reason to buy some.<\/p>\n<p>I was more interested in all the finished projects, displayed to inspire you to buy yarn or even whole ready-made kits. I&#8217;m not interested in embroidering someone else&#8217;s design, but I can still be inspired. I&#8217;m especially happy to find ideas about what to actually do with embroidery. It&#8217;s not hard to come up with designs, the hard thing is to find something to do with them. I don&#8217;t want to make useless things that can only be hung on a wall.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_3.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_6.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1862_craft_festival_7.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so glad I read the newspaper this morning and that I even skimmed the pages with event listings and event ads, which I sometimes skip. Otherwise I would have missed the yearly sewing and crafts festival, and that would have been a pity. I spent several hours just walking around and looking at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12377,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions\/12377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}