{"id":1,"date":"2021-01-09T23:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T23:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-01-10T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T01:08:12","slug":"theodysseycontinues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/theodysseycontinues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odyssey Continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi there. Many of the readers of this blog will already know me. My name is Karen and I&#8217;ve lived in Brisbane Australia for 20+ years. I recently retired from a long academic career, most recently with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/business.uq.edu.au\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"business.uq.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\">University of Queensland Business School<\/a>. While some of you may be familiar with my <a href=\"http:\/\/fixthetaxtreaty.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">advocacy work<\/a> in the area of <a href=\"http:\/\/seatnow.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">extraterritorial US taxation<\/a>, this site is all about my crafts (and maybe some travel). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember not knitting. Spinning was introduced into my craft repertoire in 1994 when we were living in St. Louis, Missouri &#8211; just before we moved to Australia in 1995. In 2004, as I was finishing my PhD, I bought my first loom and learnt to weave. These three crafts will be my creative outlet in retirement as I look to improve my skills and make beautiful textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I currently serve as Treasurer at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/qldspinners.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Queensland Spinners, Weavers, and Fibre Artists<\/a> (QSWFA), where I also tutor classes in spinning and weaving. If you&#8217;re in the Brisbane area and you haven&#8217;t checked out QSWFA, you&#8217;re missing a vibrant craft community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My crafting plans for 2021 include a new loom &#8211; to be delivered in March or April &#8211; so stay tuned to see what I can do with 12 shafts and 110cm weaving width!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. Many of the readers of this blog will already know me. My name is Karen and I&#8217;ve lived in Brisbane Australia for 20+ years. I recently retired from a long academic career, most recently with the University of Queensland Business School. While some of you may be familiar with my advocacy work in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/09\/theodysseycontinues\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Odyssey Continues&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4,5],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-loom","tag-meta","tag-qswfa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/ShadowWeave.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}