{"id":167,"date":"2013-10-02T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idyllicchick.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2013-10-02T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T01:59:09","slug":"fiber-in-spiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Fiber In-Spiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a revelation at the Florida Fiber In this past weekend. A small revelation, but a revelation nonetheless. You see, I love to spin. I realized this weekend that not only do I love to spin, but I love everything that surrounds the idea and the act of spinning. Especially when another hundred or so people are involved. I love to learn about spinning and I love to pass on to others what I already know.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lorena and I have been going to the Fiber In off and on for several years now. Along the way I&#8217;ve put away any comparisons of this fiber convention to the business and science fiction conventions I&#8217;ve been to in the past. This is not that kind of convention. I wouldn&#8217;t even call it a convention. I&#8217;d call it one long Stitch &amp; Bitch. With occasional meals and constant drinkies. And I like that. Throw in the occasional interesting demo\/tutorial, and that&#8217;s one damn fine weekend if you ask me.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/129.80.192.179\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fiber-In-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168 aligncenter\" alt=\"Fiber In 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/129.80.192.179\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Fiber-In-2013-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" href=\"about:blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I spun a lot at the Fiber In this year. I helped Lorena with the Haldecraft booth too, but I mostly spun. And watched other spinners. And talked to other spinners. And talked to potential spinners. I think we recruited a couple of people for our monthly craft group. And all of this filled me with such a warm feeling. Even sitting with another knitter\/spinner for an hour at 11pm waiting for someone to come lock the vending room was fulfilling because I got to know my fellow spinner better and we both had some tips and fun stories to trade.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;ve been back from the Fiber In for well over a week now, and I haven&#8217;t stopped. I haven&#8217;t stopped spinning, but I also haven&#8217;t stopped thinking or talking about spinning. I&#8217;ve finished spinning the project that I was working on at the Fiber In, and I&#8217;m preparing to knit that yarn up. Just in time to have a beautiful project to show off at the January Spin In in 2014!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a revelation at the Florida Fiber In this past weekend. A small revelation, but a revelation nonetheless. You see, I love to spin. I realized this weekend that not only do I love to spin, but I love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scissors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllicchick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}