{"id":10575,"date":"2020-10-14T13:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/?page_id=10575"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:30:16","slug":"arts-crafts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/arts-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTS &#038; CRAFTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter bio says, \u201cNovelist. Maker. Aspiring odalisque. #AdultHumanFemale I only lie between the covers.\u201d This is the maker page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadbiob\">Cross Stitch<\/p>\n<p>I do not generally \u201cfinish\u201d my projects as pillows, ornaments, framed works, or display them. I have a treasure box I store them in. I fold them up in acid-free tissue and keep them there, guarding them and looking at them like a dragon guards and counts his gold. For me, it is about the process and the finish line, not the \u201cfinish\u201d and displaying. I also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/EffervesceDesigns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">design cross stitch patterns and sell them on Etsy<\/a>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p class=\"subheadbiob\">Chiefs afghan<\/p>\n<p>I made this because I wanted to figure out how to do an <a href=\"https:\/\/martinupnorth.com\/2018\/11\/17\/adventures-in-entrelac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entrelac pattern<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunisian_crochet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tunisian stitch<\/a>, which is my favorite. My favorite colors are red and yellow or yellow and red, depending on the day. It took me a minute to get the rhythm of it, and I made a lot of mistakes, but once I got started, I couldn\u2019t stop, so this thing is huge, it\u2019s heavy, and it now belongs to my husband because&nbsp;\u2026 It so happens that red and yellow are also the Kansas City Chiefs colors, and my husband is a rabid Chiefs fan (I\u2019m just a fair-weather fan), so he <em>insisted<\/em> it was a Chiefs afghan. It is not, but I decided to play like it is. This is the last thing I finished. I started a different crochet project (not Tunisian), but got tired of it, so it\u2019s in my closet.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p class=\"subheadbiob\">Miscellaneous<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\n<p class=\"subheadbiob\">Drawing<\/p>\n<p>I took art classes at the local juco, fall 2021 semester. I had \u201cdesign foundations\u201d and \u201cdrawing 1,\u201d where I was just picking up where I left off in 1986, senior year in high school art. Then life happened and I never got back to it.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\n<div class=\"date\">20260322<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Twitter bio says, \u201cNovelist. Maker. Aspiring odalisque. #AdultHumanFemale I only lie between the covers.\u201d This is the maker page. Cross Stitch I do not generally \u201cfinish\u201d my projects as pillows, ornaments, framed works, or display them. I have a treasure box I store them in. I fold them up in acid-free tissue and keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10575","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24843,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10575\/revisions\/24843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}