{"id":1532,"date":"2011-08-28T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2011-08-19T11:01:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:01:10","slug":"follow-the-purple-silk-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1532","title":{"rendered":"Follow the Purple Silk Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to embark on my next pair of socks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silkroadsocks.com\/\">Silk Road Socks<\/a>. I love this book! Each time I finish a pair, I love them more than expected. So, next up will be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/usak\">Usaks<\/a>. The cuff of these socks makes me think of butterflies, so I&#8217;m feeling purple. Here are my choices:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1470-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1470\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1470-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1470.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was afraid the Ella Rae Lace would be too thin. The Cascade seemed too solid. The malabrigo is very nice, but I bought the Knitpicks longer ago, so I wanted to use that. I&#8217;m not sure that makes a lot of sense, but that&#8217;s where I landed. So, using my new-found winding skills, I turned the hank into a lovely cake.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1483.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1483-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1483\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1483-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1483.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKnitpicks Stroll Tonal handpainted yarn in Royalty. We&#8217;re off to see the wizard&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>ps. Happy Birthday, Turtle! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to embark on my next pair of socks from Silk Road Socks. I love this book! Each time I finish a pair, I love them more than expected. So, next up will be the Usaks. The cuff of these socks makes me think of butterflies, so I&#8217;m feeling purple. Here are my choices: [&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-1532","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\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}