{"id":1079,"date":"2026-01-07T23:30:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2026-01-11T00:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T00:14:13","slug":"memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1071 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-276x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-276x300.jpeg 276w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-940x1024.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-768x836.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-1411x1536.jpeg 1411w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-1881x2048.jpeg 1881w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-700x762.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5944-332x362.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/>\ufffc<br \/>\nThe hukahuka for this piece are made with Foxton harakeke prepared in different ways. The exception is the white muka which is from \u014ctaki. I had saved what remained once I completed my first ever hieke. That hieke was for my brother Basil and the colours are of the sea, which was especially appropriate for him. They reflect his many years of involvement in organisations such as surf lifesaving, coast guard and search and rescue<br \/>\nI have also included a few strands of the blue cotton I used as the aho on the Hieke.<br \/>\nBasil died in 2023.<br \/>\n\ufffc<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1073 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-300x203.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-1024x691.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-768x518.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-1536x1037.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-2048x1383.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-700x473.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5924-332x224.jpeg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The protective quilt I made for the weaving is tied with plaits of harakeke from Aunty Ettie\u2019s beautiful plant she had growing in her back garden in Thynne Street in Foxton. Just along the street from where Kiri grew up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1074 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-178x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-178x300.jpeg 178w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-608x1024.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-768x1293.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-912x1536.jpeg 912w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-1217x2048.jpeg 1217w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-700x1178.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-332x559.jpeg 332w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5719-scaled.jpeg 1521w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/>Seeing Kiri, Basil\u2019s daughter, wear her Dad\u2019s Kakahu at her wedding was the inspiration for this weaving.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1082 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-1024x716.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-2048x1433.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-700x490.jpg 700w, https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_5967-332x232.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It gives me great pleasure to gift this to her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufffc The hukahuka for this piece are made with Foxton harakeke prepared in different ways. The exception is the white muka which is from \u014ctaki. I had saved what remained once I completed my first ever hieke. That hieke was for my brother Basil and the colours are of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weaving.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}