{"id":21340,"date":"2025-10-25T23:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T22:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21340"},"modified":"2025-11-03T23:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T22:18:28","slug":"daily_3889_-_crafts_festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/10\/25\/daily_3889_-_crafts_festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3889 &#8211; crafts festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3889_festival_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The semiannual crafts festival. I was going to take a half-day at work and come her yesterday to avoid the crowds, but other things turned up, so today it is.<\/p>\n<p>I was also thinking of just skipping it because it&#8217;s not like I need more fabric or yarn. But it&#8217;s not so much about the buying as it is about inspiration. I come home with one or two purchases, and a dozen photos and notes of things I could try. Sweater design ideas, little things I could sew, or otherwise make, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3889_festival_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the buying side of things, I went in with a plan. I have learned that impulse buying doesn&#8217;t work for me. I end up with yarn I don&#8217;t know what to do with, or too little yarn for the idea I later come up with, etc. This time I knew I wanted material for a thick, warm, green sweater or cardigan, and this one jersey fabric that I have been looking at for years now because it is so lovely. I don&#8217;t know what or when I will use it, but the thought of the seller maybe discontinuing this fabric without me having a piece of it was not making me happy at all, so now I have a piece of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3889_festival_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The semiannual crafts festival. I was going to take a half-day at work and come her yesterday to avoid the crowds, but other things turned up, so today it is. I was also thinking of just skipping it because it&#8217;s not like I need more fabric or yarn. But it&#8217;s not so much about the [&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-21340","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\/21340","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=21340"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21344,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21340\/revisions\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}