{"id":367,"date":"2018-06-20T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T03:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2018-06-20T22:24:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T03:24:24","slug":"my-father-cant-crochet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/20\/my-father-cant-crochet\/","title":{"rendered":"My father can&#8217;t crochet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My father has never wanted to learn how to crochet. He would be really good at it because of the math involved and he would really want to create uniform stitches. (He likes things organized and lined up.) He has never wanted to crochet but has always supported me in my craft. When I was younger, I asked him to drop off a bag of scarves at a shelter because it wasn\u2019t too far from where he worked. He said that the people he gave the bag to were really excited and still talks about how he doesn\u2019t think the intended recipients got all of the scarves, because the workers all exclaimed &#8211; \u201cthese are new\u201d when they looked into the bag.<\/p>\n<p>Just because my father doesn\u2019t want to learn to crochet doesn\u2019t mean that he isn\u2019t supportive. He proudly wears things that I have made and wants people to compliment what he\u2019s wearing &#8211; generally a hat or scarf so he can say that his daughter made the item. He talks about what I make for other people. He has bought me yarn and still drops off things to shelters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-247 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0227162129-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0227162129-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0227162129-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0227162129-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/0227162129.jpg 1328w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hat and scarf I dyed with coffee and made for my dad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Having a supportive parent is wonderful, even if you can\u2019t share the activity or have no interest in it. My father doesn\u2019t wear sweaters that often, but I\u2019m sure if I made him one, he would wear it. He is excited when I give him something made especially for him in a color that will match a certain jacket or coat. Everyone should have that feeling that someone has made something for them.<\/p>\n<p>I may never meet many of the people I make scarves for, but my dad is a great cheerleader&#8230; \u201cHow many scarves have you made? How many afghans have you made? What group are those for? They are going to like those.\u201d It\u2019s nice to have someone say so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father has never wanted to learn how to crochet. He would be really good at it because of the math involved and he would really want to create uniform stitches. (He likes things organized and lined up.) He has never wanted to crochet but has always supported me in my craft. When I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crochetmaven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}