{"id":3767,"date":"2012-11-09T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2012-11-08T22:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:50:57","slug":"finished-chrysanthemum-frutescens-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=3767","title":{"rendered":"Finished Chrysanthemum Frutescens Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the fact that I do not have any Chrysanthemums to take pictures of these in, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2741\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney<\/a> and I traipsed around our hood looking for photo ops. First, we found a stump.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3855-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chrysanthemum socks\" title=\"IMG_3855\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3855-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3855-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3855.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Then, a &#8220;ladder&#8221; that I would not trust with my weight, but that seemed plenty strong enough to hold a pair of socks.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3869.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3869-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chrysanthemum socks\" title=\"IMG_3869\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3869-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3869-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3869.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3868-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chrysanthemum socks\" title=\"IMG_3868\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3868-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3868-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3868.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;and then we found the barrel cacti. I&#8217;m not much for prickly pears, but we have a few barrel cacti that have charmed me. I&#8217;m always pleased when there&#8217;s a new one in the bunch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3889-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Chrysanthemum socks\" title=\"Chrysanthemum socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3889-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3889-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3889.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>These socks require concentration. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend knitting them while operating heavy machinery, but they are totally worth it. This is another lovely pattern from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.violentlydomestic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Hammersen<\/a> and I&#8217;m very pleased with it in spite of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2924\" target=\"_blank\">pain that I went through with the picot edging<\/a>. In the end, I figured it out and now I feel like a bona fide knitting genius (I just learned that bona fide is two words, so clearly, not a real genius, but a knitting genius nonetheless).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ravel.me\/Kat1e\/cfs\" target=\"_blank\">Mine raveled here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Ps. These were the socks I wanted to finish for Socktoberfest. I was only a bit late.<br \/>\nPps. Check out what others have finished at <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target = \"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wisdom begins in Wonder<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalsuburbia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Suburbia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of the fact that I do not have any Chrysanthemums to take pictures of these in, Sydney and I traipsed around our hood looking for photo ops. First, we found a stump. Then, a &#8220;ladder&#8221; that I would not trust with my weight, but that seemed plenty strong enough to hold a pair [&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":[62,22,24,25,155],"class_list":["post-3767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-chrysanthemum-socks","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-knit","tag-socks","tag-socktoberfest"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}