{"id":274,"date":"2008-06-03T20:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-06-19T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T00:49:19","slug":"cretan-and-crawlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"cretan and crawlin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>spent yesterdayy struggling with the cretan stitch, then this morning: bless goodness if i didn&#8217;t figure it out. just the way it always happens: i say aloud &#8220;okay, that&#8217;s it. forget this, i&#8217;m striking out to do a stitch we&#8217;ll call jeanne&#8217;s cretan.&#8221; then voila: i figure it out: you have to TURN the fabric. first this way, then that way. first up, then down. i promise that little (important) tidbit was NOT in the instructional sketch in either of my books, and yes, maybe if i had a lick of spatial concept sense, i would&#8217;ve been able to figure that out. <\/p>\n<p>but alas.<\/p>\n<p>you can still see the wonkies and wobbles, but basically i&#8217;m getting the hang of it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reallycretan.jpg\" alt=\"reallycretan.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"147\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>then, feeling ever-so-confident, i went back and added a third prong to make tridents. perfect for this place setting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/reallytrident.jpg\" alt=\"reallytrident.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"162\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>tomorrow i break out the instruction book for the camera and see what i can do about taking snaps that don&#8217;t need to be shaved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spent yesterdayy struggling with the cretan stitch, then this morning: bless goodness if i didn&#8217;t figure it out. just the way it always happens: i say aloud &#8220;okay, that&#8217;s it. forget this, i&#8217;m striking out to do a stitch we&#8217;ll call jeanne&#8217;s cretan.&#8221; then voila: i figure it out: you have to TURN the fabric. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-dinner-party","category-natural-curl","category-witw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}