{"id":1145,"date":"2013-05-06T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5710.temp.domains\/~pippinst\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2013-05-06T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T17:12:30","slug":"1145","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/1145\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweater colours and moon-faced girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1988\"<\/a>I was painting this canvas the other day and thinking about its start. \u00a0My daughter was a toddler and had been given a gorgeous sweater as a hand-me-down. She used to get the best hand-me-downs. I loved the colours of this sweater so much that I kept squishing her into it after it was getting a little tight and the seasons had changed. \u00a0We’ve all done that right? “No, no, it’s all good, it still fits, almost there, think small.”<\/p>\n

I can picture her in the sweater. \u00a0Two or three, with a beautiful round face and skin that glowed like the moon. \u00a0When she was just very little a friend in fact said she had a moon face, and that was both meant and taken as a compliment, and true.<\/p>\n

I had to give up trying to get the sweater on her eventually. \u00a0Of course. \u00a0Even before she’d truly grown out of it, it had a very small neck opening and she would grumble\/growl\/screech when I tried to get it over her head.<\/p>\n

When I faced the fact that it was over, this gorgeous sweater and I would no longer have the chance to hang out together, I pulled out my wool cards and went through\u00a0matching\u00a0up the colours to Appleton wool. And when the ideas of\u00a0winter\u00a0umbrellas came into my head the cooler colours seemed a good match. \u00a0I still love them. \u00a0A bit of a quirky palette, both calming and bright, and memories of when my fabulous teenager was my moon-faced baby girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was painting this canvas the other day and thinking about its start. \u00a0My daughter was a toddler and had been given a gorgeous sweater …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,11,40],"tags":[7,17,12,25,93,14,31],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-needlepoint","category-painting-canvases","tag-colours","tag-im-so-going-to-use-those-colours","tag-inspirations","tag-life","tag-needlepoint","tag-painting","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pippinstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}