{"id":1062,"date":"2011-01-27T20:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2011-01-27T20:42:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T03:42:45","slug":"shiny-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Shiny things!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago, Lisa bought some shiny yarn (Blue Heron Rayon Metallic – Aubergine) and wasn’t sure what she was going to do with it. At the same time, I was researching what kind or a wrap I might knit for a wedding in March. I ran across a Jeanie in BHRM on ravelry.com, and thought of the yarn Lisa bought and decided that would be perfect! She may have been a little miffed that I found a use for her dream yarn before she did, but she’s super cool and doesn’t hold a grudge so…..
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A couple of weeks ago, I bought this shiny yarn:
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\nBlue Heron Rayon Metallic
Deep Space Silver
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and I wound it into a shiny ball:
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\nand then I began to knit the Jeanie wrap from knitty.com by Keri Williams<\/a>
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Dropping the stitches the first time was a little scarey, but I did it, and now I’m almost 40% through with the body. I must disclaim that I’m getting distracted from my shiny Jeanie with other projects, but I’m going to finish it and am not bored with it yet. Here’s a picture of it right after the first couple of drops:
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But, I’m like a bird, getting distracted by the next shiny thing. One might almost think I have an actual nest to line and feather. Next, I want to knit these socks, no, knit that sweater<\/a>, no……these fingerless gloves<\/a>!
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what will be next? …we shall see!
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Ps. Happy B-day, A!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three weeks ago, Lisa bought some shiny yarn (Blue Heron Rayon Metallic – Aubergine) and wasn’t sure what she was going to do with it. At the same time, I was researching what kind or a wrap I might knit for a wedding in March. I ran across a Jeanie in BHRM on ravelry.com, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}