{"id":399,"date":"2013-01-22T11:25:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2013-01-30T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T15:40:09","slug":"a-dyed-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"a dyed basket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"hand woven basket\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8334014329\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8496\/8334014329_9f29391900_z.jpg\" alt=\"hand woven basket\" width=\"576\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a>Longtime readers may recognize this as the same style of basket from <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=143\" target=\"_blank\">this first basket post<\/a>. Although I&#8217;ve woven a few different types of baskets since then, the potato basket remains my favorite. My plan was to dip it a couple times in a tub of latex paint, giving the bottom half of the basket a smooth, matte coating to contrast the textured reeds it&#8217;s made of. But when I hadn&#8217;t yet dipped the basket a couple days before we were set to drive to Houston, I realized I&#8217;d have to come up with a new plan, or risk getting wet paint in my car. I had a bucket of dye left over from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/childerhouseblog\/8335072506\/in\/photostream\/\" target=\"_blank\">this project<\/a>, so in it went. I love the way the reeds soaked up the dye&#8211; even in parts that weren&#8217;t submerged, you can see tiny veins of bluish-green. I finished the top off with a little tung oil, and the basket was complete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Check back later for more handmade presents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers may recognize this as the same style of basket from this first basket post. Although I&#8217;ve woven a few different types of baskets since then, the potato basket remains my favorite. My plan was to dip it a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=399\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}