{"id":594,"date":"2009-02-02T06:37:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-02-02T06:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T11:37:28","slug":"anticipation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=594","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Anticipation-Carly-Simon\/dp\/B000002I2Q\/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1233573688&amp;sr=1-7\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=586\">after completing two projects<\/a>, you would think I would be all giddy and happy and all that. And I was. For about a day. Then I got all moody, wondering what to do next. Granted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=579\">it was not like<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=436\">I didn&#8217;t have other projects<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=180\">that couldn&#8217;t just get off my duff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=78\">and get back to<\/a>; but I wanted to start something brand shiny and new.<\/p>\n<p>This is when problems happen for me, because it is in these moody times that I start a project that I am really only half-hearted about just to start a project. Self-awareness is a wonderful thing. This time, instead, I allowed myself to stay moody trying to decide what to do next. (Poor Mr. Penney for having to put up with me.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I decided on a project!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tide-pool-single.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-595\" title=\"tide-pool-single\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tide-pool-single-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided that with all of the weaving and knitting that I have been doing, it was time to cleanse the palate, so some spinning was in order. This is wool and mohair roving that I bought at last year&#8217;s Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, spun up in singles that will later be plied. Here is a closer look.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tide-pool-single-closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-596\" title=\"tide-pool-single-closeup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/tide-pool-single-closeup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty, ain&#8217;t it? The finished plied yarn will be used for weaving once summer arrives. It should make some nice scarves and\/or shawls. I bought a pound of this stuff, and I estimate that I am about halfway through it at this point. Happy Spinning!<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2009 by G. P. Donohue for textillian.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reference Well, after completing two projects, you would think I would be all giddy and happy and all that. And I was. For about a day. Then I got all moody, wondering what to do next. Granted, it was not like I didn&#8217;t have other projects that couldn&#8217;t just get off my duff and get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling","category-spinning","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}