{"id":3671,"date":"2010-04-02T06:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2010-09-27T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T23:06:49","slug":"im-jealous-of-christien-meindertsma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/im-jealous-of-christien-meindertsma\/","title":{"rendered":"i’m jealous of christien meindertsma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I must<\/em> learn to knit, if only to make my very own ‘flock rug’. What’s a ‘flock rug’ you ask… let’s see if I can explain this properly:<\/p>\n

This project, by artist Christien Meindertsma<\/a>, is titled Idaho<\/em>. She has taken wool {which is then felted, creating big, fat, beautiful yarn}<\/em> from an organic flock of Panama sheep who roam the grassy hills of Lava Lake Ranch, Idaho. Each hexagon-shaped piece in the rug is made from the wool of one sheep in the flock. She uses a different knitting stitch for each piece\/sheep,\u00a0 so that when the whole rug is sewn together, every sheep in the flock is visually represented… did that make any<\/em> sense at all? Well, if not, this interview with Christien<\/a> might help clear things up, plus you’ll get to see all of those sweet sheep {pre-haircut}<\/em> wandering the peaceful landscape of Lava Lake Ranch. Ahh, so lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must learn to knit, if only to make my very own ‘flock rug’. What’s a ‘flock rug’ you ask… let’s see if I can explain this properly: This project, by artist Christien Meindertsma, is titled Idaho. She has taken wool {which is then felted, creating big, fat, beautiful yarn} from an organic flock of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3698,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions\/3698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}