{"id":1484,"date":"2011-06-30T18:21:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T01:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2011-07-08T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T13:06:08","slug":"joshaqans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Joshaqans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkroadsocks.com\/\">Silk Road Socks book<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.violentlydomestic.com\/\">Hunter Hammersen<\/a> is totally addicting. I&#8217;m about to go cast on for another pair (Sennehs this time). <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1220.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1220-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1220\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1220-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1220.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first pair I finished from the book are the Joshagans or Joshaqans. This was my first time to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplysockyarn.com\/servlet\/Detail?no=1586\">shibui sock yarn<\/a> and I found it to be a little stretchier than expected. The color I used did not seem to have a name, which I found somewhat lame. I&#8217;d call it mullberry, so not sure if the link goes to it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1245.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1245-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1245\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1245-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1245.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOne of my socks turned out a slightly different size than the other or wait, my feet are slightly different, so the socks fit better one way than the other. I left a tiny tail on the left one so I&#8217;ll always know.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1251-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1251\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1251-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1251.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe first pics I took inside had the socks looking two different colors, so I headed out into the heat to take better photos. Don&#8217;t worry, I stayed in the shade, I haven&#8217;t totally lost my mind&#8230;yet.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1252-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1252\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1252-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1252.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI really enjoyed the play and saturation of color in this yarn, so I&#8217;ll definitely use it again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1253.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1253-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1253\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1253-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_1253.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/br\/>And yes, I&#8217;m aware that my legs are white enough for me to be a Twilight extra which is shocking considering it is almost July in Texas, but I have always worn jeans all the time, even in the summer. On the upside, if sun exposure is really what causes aging, my legs will look young forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Silk Road Socks book by Hunter Hammersen is totally addicting. I&#8217;m about to go cast on for another pair (Sennehs this time). The first pair I finished from the book are the Joshagans or Joshaqans. This was my first time to use shibui sock yarn and I found it to be a little stretchier [&hellip;]<\/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-1484","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\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}