{"id":1034,"date":"2017-04-07T12:37:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T10:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:37:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T10:37:59","slug":"suitcase-full-mojo-survival-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/suitcase-full-mojo-survival-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"A suitcase full of &#8220;mojo&#8221; &#8211; my survival kit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I have a suitcase from my grandmothers aunt, Lisa Forsman, LF. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I got it when I was teenager and I loved it!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">For many years I have kept old letters in it, then toys for our young guest, but it wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The suitcase has always caught my eyes and started chains of ideas for a greater purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And then it hit me &#8211; the suitcase is going to be my survival kit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4375-e1491557550866.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4376-e1491558068233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1042 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4376-e1491558068233-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Linen yarn in the suitcase. Scandinavian Knit.\" width=\"940\" height=\"940\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scandinavianknit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_4405.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>My mojo suitcase<\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A place to fill with\u00a0inspiration:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Colors and shapes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Something that smells nice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Yarn I like\u00a0touching. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Things that make me wonder. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A small drawing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A postcard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The list is long and I keep changing the content. So when I feel that my mojo or inspiration has gone or is low, when I need it, I can open the suitcase and\u00a0let these little treasures talk to me and something will start to grow in me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Find your knitting mojo&#8221; workshop<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">At the knitting festival in May in Stockholm I&#8217;ll teach a workshop where you can learn to make your own &#8220;suitcase&#8221;of inspiration, so you will have you own speciale place to go to when\/if your knitting inspiration or knitting mojo disappears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The workshop will\u00a0primarily be\u00a0held in Danish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/NvoGhO\">Find more information at Knitwork.dk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a suitcase from my grandmothers aunt, Lisa Forsman, LF. I got it when I was teenager and I loved it! For many years I have kept old letters in it, then toys for our young guest, but it wasn&#8217;t enough. &nbsp; The suitcase has always caught my eyes and started chains of ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting-mojo-en","category-linen-en","category-sweden-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scandinavianknit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}