{"id":59,"date":"2007-10-15T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-10-15T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:39:00","slug":"criticism-completion-tatami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Criticism, Completion, Tatami."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a big post about Yarnstorm&#8217;s book, the Alison Lapper Statue and the feelings I have about handing in my writeup &#8211; finally &#8211; tomorrow. The theme loosely is criticism and what it does to learning; also difficult issues and how controversy seems to be a natural result of asking hard questions and delving into political territories like disability, domesticity, craft, feminism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But to balance this intellectualism and cultural commentary &#8211; or perhaps to ground it &#8211; I wanted to share these things:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 403px; height: 302px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2109\/1578601699_2d3841ec08.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is Tatami, cast-on in wool I frogged from an old jumper. This feels like carpet yarn to knit with but ought to produce a firm and warm garment. Plus, I am deeply pleased with the enormous amount of yarn the sweater yielded for the \u00c2\u00a33.99 I paid for it in Age Concern. I suspect the original sweater was produced by a machine as it was standard stockinette and, as I&#8217;ve mentioned, is not the nicest thing on this earth to knit with.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignfordrawing.org\/home\/index.aspx\">the Campaign For Drawing<\/a> event this weekend, I had a lot of fun drawing Mark.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 418px; height: 313px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2117\/1578593025_039cb2bdf6.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/div>\n<p>and then bartering this in exchange for someone else&#8217;s hand-drawn postcard. Finally, we both contributed drawings to a Bus; mine is the angry, yelling man and Mark&#8217;s is the fine pigeon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 420px; height: 315px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2058\/1578597255_527614a528.jpg?w=950\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a big post about Yarnstorm&#8217;s book, the Alison Lapper Statue and the feelings I have about handing in my writeup &#8211; finally &#8211; tomorrow. 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