{"id":168,"date":"2008-06-03T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-06-03T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T12:37:00","slug":"lettuce-be-inspired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Lettuce be inspired."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my friend Caroline&#8217;s birthday. Caroline is wonderful and I am super glad for her presence on the planet today in particular. Caroline is a great improv-knitter and has made such wondrous items as the knitted vegetable bunting including a knitted turnip:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 343px; height: 457px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2040\/2157346273_38bc09d795.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and the anatomically correct knitted heart:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 353px; height: 263px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1019\/1470518180_8f6675c43d.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>You can see in this photograph where Caro is holding the heart, that she is also, like me, a fan of the polka dot. And were the heart not in the way, you would see her felted pea necklace which is the twin to mine. We made them together a couple of years ago at a very sad time. The peas cheered us up. In my garden I have things growing that Caro sent me the seeds for&#8230; notably some large orange pumpkin plants, Dill, Calendula and something I don&#8217;t know about yet called &#8216;shoo-fly.&#8217; We talk every week or so, for a couple of hours. About polka dots, about love, about our gardens, our relationships, our health, our work and our dreams. I would be lost without Caroline. I wanted to find something for her which would note the generosity &#8211; and silliness &#8211; of our friendship.<\/p>\n<p>I therefore devised a knitted &#8216;inspiration sandwich&#8217; for an inspiring friend, and set about knitting it for the lovely Caroline. Joyfully, I was on the telephone to her this morning when the postman delivered it to her, and so heard it being recieved with the same delight that had accompanied its creation.<\/p>\n<p>Observe the wholesome, donegal tweed 100% wool crusts. These are designed to give inspiration a solid bedrock of nourishing confidence.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 345px; height: 257px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3105\/2547459285_24a83125ff.jpg?w=950\" \/><br \/><!-- div--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Inspiration always benefits from an influx of fresh ideas and we see these typified in the curly edged lettuce and nice green cucumber slices, incorporated into the sandwich here:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 344px; height: 257px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3074\/2547463545_88442fbf22.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 345px; height: 258px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3146\/2547494135_2c07b7ab72.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Of course, for inspired ideas to really take off, a period of fermentation and maturation needs to occur; ideas muct be left for a time to attain their full potential, illustrated here in this nice slice of slightly felted cheese. You can see it underneath the lettuce&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 356px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2548291506_5c02eafc46.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>To bring things to their proper level of wondrousness, you need a little va-va-voom. This is why the knitted tomato slice has been included; for an extra something.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 355px; height: 267px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2036\/2547465065_0e3bc238fc.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>All together now, the Inspiration Sandwich.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 358px; height: 269px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3160\/2547492799_2aaee734eb.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 356px; height: 269px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3186\/2547461177_c120f86cc3.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Happy Birthday Caro, you&#8217;re my inspiration sandwich and I love you!<\/p>\n<p>xxx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my friend Caroline&#8217;s birthday. 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Caroline is a great improv-knitter and has made such wondrous items as the knitted vegetable bunting including a knitted turnip: &#8230;and the anatomically correct knitted heart: You can see in this photograph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-2I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}