{"id":1569,"date":"2015-08-12T19:37:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2015-08-12T19:37:45","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:37:45","slug":"a-synopsis-of-my-past-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/a-synopsis-of-my-past-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"A synopsis of my past few months"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new view of life lately!!!\u00a0 I have been getting ready to go to the IOLI Convention in Iowa City, Iowa (which was July 27-August 1) for over a year now.\u00a0 It all started when I was proposing classes to the Convention coordinators over a year ago.\u00a0 They liked the idea of a quilt-themed tatting class based upon Split Ring Tatting Technique.\u00a0 I had been playing around with the quilt idea to create tatting patterns for a while, but had not really dived into the topic.\u00a0 When this class topic was chosen, I DID immerse myself into the world of historic quilt blocks–a world of color, repetition and symmetry, all concepts that I enjoy in my tatting.<\/p>\n

So for over a year, I have been studying historic quilt blocks and converting the designs into tatting.\u00a0 Once again, Split Ring Tatting Technique gave me the base to create my tatted quilt-interpretations.<\/p>\n

I created two different books based upon quilt designs:\u00a0 Patchwork Quilt Blocks in Split Ring Tatting<\/strong><\/em><\/span> & Quilt-Inspired Designs in Split Ring Tatting.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>They are quite different from one another. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Book\"cover<\/a>For the last year, I have spent every spare free minute I had working on some aspect of these two books….getting all the details done.\u00a0 I knew I was going to be ‘down-to- the wire’ with getting them printed that I decided to test my publishing skills by getting a third book done: Block Alphabets in Split Ring Tatting<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 This book of 2 different block\u00a0alphabets (and frames to use the letters\/number) \u00a0had been about 90% done for several years.\u00a0 This book had lost my interest to finish due to the fun I was having with the Quilt-Inspired books.\u00a0 But I ‘buckled-down’ and poured my time into finishing it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Alphabet<\/a>All three of these books were published and printed in the time span of end of June to the beginning of July.\u00a0 I had possession of 3 boxes of my 5 books all in time to go to IOLI Convention where I debutted them.<\/p>\n

Now they are available for purchase on my website:\u00a0 www.TheShuttleSmith.com\u00a0 Click on the “Tatting Books” tab.\u00a0 Payment is via PayPal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a new view of life lately!!!\u00a0 I have been getting ready to go to the IOLI Convention in Iowa City, Iowa (which was July 27-August 1) for over a year now.\u00a0 It all started when I was proposing classes to the Convention coordinators over a year ago.\u00a0 They liked the idea of a … Continue reading A synopsis of my past few months<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}