{"id":3739,"date":"2015-02-15T01:05:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T00:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2015-02-15T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T00:02:01","slug":"back-to-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3739","title":{"rendered":"Back to the flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those who don’t know, my mum was a potter. I grew up surrounded by skilfully executed works of art masquerading as everyday objects and didn’t think it was anything unusual, because I thought everyone’s mum could do this stuff.<\/p>\n

In much the same way, when I pull my knitting out, the children react in the same way the cats used to respond to concord taking off – a brief eye-roll-ey glance and an expression that sighs “this again”.<\/p>\n

However, this evening, when I pulled out my African Flowers project to try to make some progress, I got a “ooh, _that_ looks lovely!” From Joel.<\/p>\n

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So, I can only assume that it does indeed look lovely. Hopefully the colours are a bit closer to reality than the last time I posted about this ~ I’m told the beige looked like salmon pink which would be a very odd choice indeed. It’s beige, not salmon pink. The project ultimately will become a small bag and I have yet to decide whether some lucky person will get it next Christmas, or whether I’ll “just” use it as a project bag.<\/p>\n

I may go for the latter. It is a thing of loveliness, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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