{"id":15623,"date":"2016-07-22T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2016-07-21T20:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T03:41:38","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=15623","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! While we were in Michigan with M’s family a couple of weeks ago, my mother-in-law quietly handed me a box while I was reading\u00a0and nodding off on their cottage deck. It was from her<\/em> mother, my grandmother-in-law as it were, who passed away last September. “Sanae,” her elegant handwritten script had labeled the plain Kraft paper box.<\/p>\n

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Inside was a meticulously folded origami box.<\/p>\n

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And inside of that, beautiful shibori-dyed fabric. Ronia Marie<\/a> is a textile artist based in Indiana, where M’s family is from.<\/p>\n

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I love ’em. I love, especially, that a woman I’d met only twice who hardly knew me but enfolded me into her family, selected such a thoughtful and appropriate gift. \u00a0And that an ancient art form from Japan is practiced with care in Indiana —\u00a0the heartland of\u00a0America — where my husband’s family has deep, deep roots. It all feels interconnected.<\/p>\n

These handkerchief-sized habotai silk pieces are proffered as jewelry. K immediately beelined for them as soon as I started snapping these photos. I guess we’ll be sharing. We’ll wear shibori<\/em> bracelets together and think about Great-Grandmom as K knows her, and we’ll learn more about dyeing fabric because I actually don’t know a lot about it and have wanted to dip my toes into what looks like messy fun. Have you done any fabric dyeing? I adore\u00a0Morgan’s<\/a> experimentation with shibori<\/em> (I’ve been asking her to give me lessons for years), and\u00a0Ute has featured a gorgeous book<\/a>\u00a0(I can only find the German version<\/a> online — I might have to get it anyway) and A Verb For Keeping Warm<\/a> (of the tunic pattern<\/a> from earlier this week) also has a heavy focus on textile dyeing — this book<\/a> by AVFKW owner Kristine Vejar looks amazing.<\/p>\n

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Anyway. Wishing you all a terrific weekend! We’re gearing up for\u00a0this weekend and\u00a0will be celebrating up a storm for M’s birthday.<\/p>\n

A little ferry<\/em>
\nWill take us to an island<\/em>
\nTo our sweet teepee<\/em><\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! While we were in Michigan with M’s family a couple of weeks ago, my mother-in-law quietly handed me a box while I was reading\u00a0and nodding off on their cottage deck. It was from her mother, my grandmother-in-law as it were, who passed away last September. “Sanae,” her elegant handwritten script had labeled the plain Kraft paper box. Inside was a meticulously folded origami box. And inside of that, beautiful shibori-dyed fabric. Ronia Marie is a textile artist based in Indiana, where M’s family is from. I love ’em. I love, especially, that a woman I’d met only twice who hardly knew me but enfolded me into her family, selected such a thoughtful and appropriate gift. \u00a0And that an ancient art form from Japan is practiced with care in Indiana —\u00a0the heartland of\u00a0America — where my husband’s family has deep, deep roots. It all feels interconnected. These handkerchief-sized habotai silk pieces are proffered as jewelry. K immediately beelined for them as soon as I started snapping these photos. I guess we’ll be sharing. We’ll wear shibori bracelets together and think about Great-Grandmom as K knows her, and we’ll learn more about dyeing fabric because I actually don’t know a lot about it and have wanted to dip my toes into what looks like messy fun. Have you done any fabric dyeing? I adore\u00a0Morgan’s experimentation with shibori (I’ve been asking her to give me lessons for years), and\u00a0Ute has featured a gorgeous book\u00a0(I can only find the German version online — I might have to get it anyway) and A Verb For Keeping Warm (of the tunic pattern from earlier this week) also has a heavy focus on textile dyeing — this book by AVFKW owner Kristine Vejar looks amazing. Anyway. Wishing you all a terrific weekend! We’re gearing up for\u00a0this weekend and\u00a0will be celebrating up a storm for M’s birthday. A little ferry Will take us to an island To our sweet teepee  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15638,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}