{"id":90,"date":"2020-05-18T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/?p=90"},"modified":"2020-06-08T10:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:33:06","slug":"deborah-day-the-spirits-of-life-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/2020\/05\/18\/deborah-day-the-spirits-of-life-wrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Day, The Spirits of Life Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day.jpeg\" alt=\"textile\" width=\"750\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day-360x360.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/E9B6B87C-C4FB-486C-906C-00C56B8142D1-Deborah-Day-700x702.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deborah Day<br \/>\nJandon Center for Community Engagement<\/p>\n<h3>The Spirits of Life Wrap<\/h3>\n<p>Deborah Day is the STEAM Outreach coordinator at the Jandon Center for Community Engagement at Smith College and chair of the Western Mass science and engineering fair.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her love for science, Deborah enjoys many types of creative projects including fibre arts, especially crochet. She also enjoys nature and is inspired to use the colors of nature in most of her projects.<\/p>\n<p>In seeking balance, Deborah trains for and competes in endurance events like marathons and triathlons.\u00a0 She has completed twenty marathons, three IRONMAN full distance (140.6 mile) events and four IRONMAN half distance (70.3 mile) events.\u00a0 She and her husband, Carl, also a triathlete, enjoy running and biking the country roads of Western Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah has two twenty-something sons who both live in Connecticut. She loves spending time with them whenever possible. She also has a pet cat named Hazel who has a lot of toritude!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-93\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/CC04648E-76C7-418D-A322-947871E73A12-Deborah-Day-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"textile in process\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/CC04648E-76C7-418D-A322-947871E73A12-Deborah-Day-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/CC04648E-76C7-418D-A322-947871E73A12-Deborah-Day-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/CC04648E-76C7-418D-A322-947871E73A12-Deborah-Day-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/CC04648E-76C7-418D-A322-947871E73A12-Deborah-Day-700x525.jpeg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Deborah is currently working on a crochet project titled \u201cThe Spirits of Life Wrap\u201d in which she uses several intermediate techniques such as overlay and mosaic crochet to give the piece a beautifully textured Native American textile and fiber art inspired design. The colorway she selected from the three offered is known as the Spirit of the Orchid.\u00a0 The 2017 Crochet along (CAL) pattern for this piece is available for free and has nine total parts for completion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-131\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/Deborah-Headshot-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/Deborah-Headshot-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/544\/2020\/05\/Deborah-Headshot.png 611w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deborah Day enjoys nature and is inspired to use the colors of nature in most of her projects, including her current intermediate crochet project titled \u201cThe Spirit of Life Wrap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1545,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,24,23,22,25],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-textile","tag-crochet","tag-fiber-art","tag-mosaic-crochet","tag-overlay-crochet","tag-textile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/creative-arts-showcase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}