{"id":1538,"date":"2011-08-19T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2011-08-22T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T12:56:15","slug":"watermelon-lovin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1538","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon lovin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered watermelon self-striping yarn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/knitpurlgurl\/sold\">knitpurlgirl on etsy<\/a> a little while back and when it came , I was very pleased. The colors are great&#8230;very watermelonny! After Abi offerred her pre-sale, she sold out in a couple of days, so I was lucky to get a hank. Especially since I didn&#8217;t have a credit card at the time because my account had been compromised and I was waiting on the new one to come in the mail. Luckily, a good friend floated me a loan. She&#8217;s totally an enabler, but I appreciated it.<br \/>\nWhen the yarn came in the mail, it came with the cutest little watermelon stitch marker! That was a lovely surprise. Here are pics with and without a flash.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1487.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1487-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1487\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1487-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1487.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1486.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1486-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1486\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1486-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_1486.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI stumbled across this <a href=\"http:\/\/amphibiaknitter.typepad.com\/amphibiaknits\/2011\/03\/self-striping-whimsical-yarns.html\">blog post<\/a> all about Abi&#8217;s yarns and found it very useful.<br \/>\nI plan to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/self-striping-toe-up-socks-2\">Susan A Gordon&#8217;s Self Striping Toe Up Socks<\/a> I&#8217;ve not done toe up socks before. Wish me luck!<br \/>\nps. speaking of lovin&#8217;&#8230;.Happy Anniversary, TH! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered watermelon self-striping yarn from knitpurlgirl on etsy a little while back and when it came , I was very pleased. The colors are great&#8230;very watermelonny! After Abi offerred her pre-sale, she sold out in a couple of days, so I was lucky to get a hank. Especially since I didn&#8217;t have a credit [&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-1538","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\/1538","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=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}