{"id":1985,"date":"2013-03-24T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1985"},"modified":"2013-03-24T16:10:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T21:10:02","slug":"creative-knitted-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1985","title":{"rendered":"Creative Knitted Art – Che!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an enterprising lady who has a weekly stall in the Sarandi Peatonal in the old city of Montevideo.\u00a0 She sells knitted dolls, munecas, \u00a0some this size, 45cm , some 20cm andshe alsom\u00a0makes small knitted\u00a0heads for keyring tags.\u00a0 And they’re\u00a0all great.<\/p>\n

\"Che<\/a><\/p>\n

With knitted outfit depicting the famous revolutionary khaki\u00a0battle fatigues and star-adorned beret, this is the unmistakable figure of Che Guevara<\/span><\/span>, ‘Che Papa’.\u00a0 About 45cm tall and knitted, plus sporting hand embroidered facial details,\u00a0it’s one of a series the artist Graciela makes, each tagged with her name and mobile phone#\u00a0 plus a feature I don’t think they need –\u00a0a little wristband with ‘Uruguay’ printed on it.\u00a0 As if you’d forget where you bought this wonderful creation!<\/p>\n

I think the hand stitched facial features are very good – the eyes have a touch of the soulful look in several of the famous photos of him, including ones that we saw in the Museo de la Revoluction at Santa Clara, Cuba, when we were there a\u00a0couple of\u00a0months ago.<\/p>\n

Knowing my love\u00a0of creativity in textile and fibre, Mike suggested we go to her sunday market stall on Tristan Navarja and check the rest\u00a0out. Today was a beautiful day, so we went and found two more irrestible figures – and I will show them on this page shortly… and will keep an eye on this artist\/craftsman.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an enterprising lady who has a weekly stall in the Sarandi Peatonal in the old city of Montevideo.\u00a0 She sells knitted dolls, munecas, \u00a0some this size, 45cm , some 20cm andshe alsom\u00a0makes small knitted\u00a0heads for keyring tags.\u00a0 And they’re\u00a0all great. With knitted outfit depicting the famous revolutionary khaki\u00a0battle fatigues and star-adorned beret, this is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-w1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}