{"id":5026,"date":"2010-04-11T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:12:46","slug":"remedial-crafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/remedial-crafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Remedial crafting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crocheting is not my favorite thing to do, but I do enjoy Tunisian crochet<\/a> (remedial, in my case). I\u2019m making a queen-sized \u201ccomforter” for XX TD for Christmas (provided I get it done in time). Here\u2019s the first skein:<\/p>\n

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\"AI had a ball of Sugar\u2019n Cream \u201cStrawberry\u201d yarn<\/a> (100% cotton) I bought for XX TD to learn how to crochet. Two problems: A) She\u2019s left-handed and I\u2019m not, and B) I\u2019m a horrible teacher. I seriously needed a break from reading, writing, publishing, DDJ. It had to be something creative, but not involved. Eva Gale\u2019s dishcloth project<\/a> inspired me, and I thought it was perfect for a mind break while still feeding my creativity.<\/p>\n

Eva\u2019s all about self-sufficiency and she really strives for it in ways big and small. She is such an inspiration to me. As she puts it, this project is therapy for $2. Awesome. I really liked it for that, but as a step toward self-sufficiency, I found it extremely expensive in terms of materials and time. One $2 dishcloth plus sunk costs of time when I could have been making far more than it would cost me to buy a pack of dishcloths (or Scotch-Brite sponges, which is what we use). But it was fun and it was a break and I got to use a ball of yarn I had no other use for. That<\/em> was the big bonus.<\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t watch TV much. It interferes with other things I find more interesting. Still, occasionally I want to vegetate but I can\u2019t do that without something to do while I\u2019m watching TV. I feel really guilty if I\u2019m not able to watch TV and do something productive at the same time. Crochet fills that bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crocheting is not my favorite thing to do, but I do enjoy Tunisian crochet (remedial, in my case). I\u2019m making a queen-sized \u201ccomforter” for XX TD for Christmas (provided I get it done in time). Here\u2019s the first skein: I had a ball of Sugar\u2019n Cream \u201cStrawberry\u201d yarn (100% cotton) I bought for XX TD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16741,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions\/16741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}