{"id":651,"date":"2009-09-04T16:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-09-04T16:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-09-05T00:19:20","slug":"pattern-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/pattern-blocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern Blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_5652.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_5652-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Pattern Blocks\" title=\"Pattern Blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-652\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_5652-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/DSC_5652.JPG 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">[Photo by Rebecca]<\/div>\n<p>Inspired to get around to it by <a href=\"http:\/\/thriftycraftmama.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/free-play-with-pattern-blocks.html\">Thrifty Craft Mama<\/a> I put away our set of pattern blocks with pattern cards and got out the thicker set that didn&#8217;t have any pattern cards.  The pattern cards were too slippery and frustrating for Rebecca, she wanted her shapes to line up perfectly, and they were always getting bumped a little bit, so she didn&#8217;t want to play with them anymore.  Once we put the pattern cards away she was able to have a lot more fun laying out strips of triangles and making her own stars.  Then we started building mountains and little houses, and that was even more fun.<\/p>\n<p>And I like making really complex mandalas too.  Most of my creative energy recently has been going to cleaning and organizing, there is much too much clutter and not enough space and I think it&#8217;s bad for me and Rebecca.  (That and energy going towards taking care of Penelope and not abandoning Rebecca.)  So I&#8217;m not sure there is going to be too much craftyness around here for a little while.  Maybe next week I can take a picture of my refolded and boxed fabric stash, right now it&#8217;s gotten to the point of being crammed in on top of the books on the bookcase and in shoeboxes that stick out further than the shelves.  I got some boxes from IKEA that actually fit on the shelves, and I&#8217;m trying to rearrange everything to be more visually uniform and relaxing.  And not covering every horizontal <em>and<\/em> vertical surface&#8230; sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo by Rebecca] Inspired to get around to it by Thrifty Craft Mama I put away our set of pattern blocks with pattern cards and got out the thicker set that didn&#8217;t have any pattern cards. The pattern cards were too slippery and frustrating for Rebecca, she wanted her shapes to line up perfectly, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[214,212,37],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-homeschool","tag-life","tag-toddler-fun","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmXcv-av","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oneinchworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}