{"id":5,"date":"2009-11-10T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T06:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitsilized.com\/blog\/\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-03-27T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T14:49:31","slug":"aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/aboutme\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 9px; margin-right: 9px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-content\/gallery\/clips\/ravatar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\"\/><\/strong>Welcome to my&nbsp; little design and knitting studio in internet!<\/h4>\n<p>I am an Estonian knitter, knitting&nbsp;lace&nbsp;since&nbsp;<a title=\"Some photos from my lace history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/my-lace-history\/\" class=\"broken_link\">1986<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 I attended the Folk University of Tallinn, Estonia and took the master class in Haapsalu shawl lace knitting with Master Aime Edasi from Haapsalu.&nbsp;My goal was to learn the specific details regarding what makes the traditional Haapsalu shawl authentic and how it differs from other types of lace.<\/p>\n<p>That is how I became a spokesperson for our own traditional shawls and a supporter of&nbsp;the Haapsalu Masters.&nbsp;I take great pride to name my shawls Haapsalu shawls, which I only do when they meet authentic criteria in every single detail.&nbsp;I am also knitting and and designing tablecloths, curtains, gloves, and of course shawls, scarfs and stoles in different shapes.<\/p>\n<p>In the winter of 2009-2010 I fell in love with knitting our national mittens and socks for their beauty of colors and warmth of Estonian yarns, and occasionally I have mittens available.&nbsp;The fibers I love and use most are natural wool and cotton.<\/p>\n<h4>Where does the name Pitsilized come from?<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;Pits&#8221; means lace in Estonian, and&nbsp; some time ago we were joking with my Ravelry friends that everything around a dedicated lace&nbsp;knitter gets pitsilized sooner or later.&nbsp;If you can be hypnotized, emotionalized and things can be fiberized or popularized then&nbsp;lace can be pitsilized as well, isn\u2019t that so? ;)<\/p>\n<p>With love of knitting<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my&nbsp; little design and knitting studio in internet! I am an Estonian knitter, knitting&nbsp;lace&nbsp;since&nbsp;1986. In 2008 I attended the Folk University of Tallinn, Estonia and took the master class in Haapsalu shawl lace knitting with Master Aime Edasi from Haapsalu.&nbsp;My goal was to learn the specific details regarding what makes the traditional Haapsalu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pitsilized.com\/design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}