{"id":172,"date":"2021-09-15T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T00:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-09-15T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T01:04:35","slug":"dear-family-sorry-i-havent-written-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/15\/dear-family-sorry-i-havent-written-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Family, sorry I haven&#8217;t written lately&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welp, time, as it does, got away from me and it\u2019s been way too long since I posted.&nbsp; But more and more of my friends are getting away from Facebook, and I\u2019ve been asked to resurrect a blog, so here goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">When I left you, I was still researching crochet hooks.&nbsp; Turns out, the big winners&nbsp; there were the Clover Amour hooks.&nbsp; &nbsp; I find myself reaching for those over everything else, to the point I may end up getting duplicates for some of my most-used sizes.&nbsp; Why? Because I constantly have multiple projects going and sometimes more than one of them requires the same size hook.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also had to eat my words (lucky for me they were tasty with ranch dressing), because I always said I didn\u2019t care for shawls,&nbsp; they fell off.&nbsp; Enter the picture below\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sunriseshawlfront.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"173\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sunriseshawlfront.jpeg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/?attachment_id=173\" class=\"wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sunriseshawlfront.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/sunriseshawlfront-291x300.jpeg 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026..and inspiration struck.&nbsp; I\u2019ve since made a couple of shawls, and a poncho for myself, and another shawl for my daughter, and a stole for a friend who said she needed something for her arms for summer weddings and graduations\u2026 Although the joke was on her with that one &#8211; the first time she wore it, her mother stole it and refuses to give it back!&nbsp; It\u2019s a stolen stole!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">I\u2019m also pretty excited to announce that we have a new member of the family.\u00a0 No, no, not what\u00a0 you\u2019re thinking.\u00a0 And not that either!\u00a0 Meet Lettie the loom.\u00a0 She is a 4-shaft, 6 treadle, 36\u201d weaving width floor loom, made by Harrisville Designs.\u00a0 Her story, and how she came to live with us will be in a separate post, in the very near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Hvillefloorloom1-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Hvillefloorloom1-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Hvillefloorloom1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Hvillefloorloom1-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Hvillefloorloom1.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, time, as it does, got away from me and it\u2019s been way too long since I posted.&nbsp; But more and more of my friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelsdreams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}