{"id":145,"date":"2020-11-23T23:49:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T07:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/?p=145"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:55:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T04:55:22","slug":"week-6-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/week-6-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2020 – Week 6 Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have to admit now that my weeks involve mostly spinning, they sort of bleed into each other. I’m having a hard time differentiating them; I should have written this back in week seven. I’ll do my best to remember what I did, though my log does indicate I mostly spun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did start reading another book: Greek and Roman Dress From A to Z<\/em>. It’s written in an encyclopedia format, though I’m reading it like any other book – starting at page one and going until I get to the last page. This is how I tend to read encyclopedias and I’ve done this since I was a child; I’m a bit odd, I know. It works for me, especially in this case, because I’m picking up terms I never knew about. This is very helpful when it comes to colors and dyes, which I’ll focus more on next quarter when I dye the yarn I’m currently spinning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But mostly, I spun. It’s a nice escape from the rest of the world; I put on a podcast and spin for hours, taking breaks to eat and stretch my legs. It can be a little lonely, though. I can see how spinning was an activity that was done in groups, women grabbing their spindles, or later on in history their wheels, and socializing while doing a very necessary activity. Though, before the pandemic, I did have opportunities to spin with other people (of all genders these days!) but I never took advantage of those opportunities. In the end, I’m an introvert. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a different feeling to spinning when I’m spinning for pleasure versus spinning for necessity. I’ve always spun because I enjoy it. Whatever I made was created on my own timeline and was technically something I could find somewhere else. This is not the case now. I am<\/em> on a timeline and what I am creating is unique. Sure, I could buy fabric and with a sewing machine (and even then that’s not a necessary tool) easily make something resembling a chiton. <\/em>But it wouldn’t be anywhere near the same. All of this somehow changes the way I feel when I spin. I sort of feel like my spinning wheel is a time machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is where I spend a good chunk of my time<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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It’s been a fun challenge trying to keep a consistent thickness with my yarn. I’ve only had my wheel for about 6 months and it’s a bit different from spinning with a spindle. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to admit now that my weeks involve mostly spinning, they sort of bleed into each other. I’m having a hard time differentiating them; I should have written this back in week seven. I’ll do my best to remember what I did, though my log does indicate I mostly spun. I did start reading … Continue reading Fall 2020 – Week 6 Summary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4,3],"tags":[],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.evergreen.edu\/ilc-f20-gloria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}