{"id":4245,"date":"2013-01-23T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2013-01-22T22:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:04:59","slug":"shades-of-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve probably figured out that I have a bit of a Gray fetish. No, not THAT Gray. Gray yarn. So, I went stash diving to find the right gray for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4226\" target=\"_blank\">toes of The Husband&#8217;s Gentleman&#8217;s Fancy Socks<\/a>. I found 50 shades of gray (ok, 9) and they are (from left):<br \/>\nKoigu Painter&#8217;s Palette Premium Merino<br \/>\nCascade Heritage Silk<br \/>\nHandwerks So Soft Sock &#8211; Milkweed<br \/>\nString Theory Bluestocking &#8211; Pewter<br \/>\nSocks that Rock Medium &#8211; Stormy Weather<br \/>\nPlucky Knitter Primo Fingering &#8211; Elegant Elephant<br \/>\nLorna&#8217;s Laces Solemate &#8211; Buckingham Fountain<br \/>\nKnit Pick&#8217;s Palette &#8211; Mist<br \/>\nMacKintosh Iona Fingering &#8211; Senka<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4544-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"9 Shades of Gray\" title=\"9 Shades of Gray\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4544-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4544-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4544.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>I narrowed it down to three I&#8217;d be willing to part with and let The Husband pick from:<br \/>\nMacKintosh (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=1502\" target=\"_blank\">cause I&#8217;m still ticked at this yarn<\/a>),<br \/>\nCascade (cause it didn&#8217;t cost an arm and a leg)<br \/>\nLorna&#8217;s Laces (cause these socks are Solemate, and I like matchy matchy).<br \/>\nDrumroll, please&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4545-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gentleman&#039;s Sock and Gray for Toes\" title=\"Gentleman&#039;s Sock and Gray for Toes\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4545-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4545-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/IMG_4545.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe toes of the Gentleman&#8217;s Fancy Socks will be Cascade. He chose wisely.<br \/>\n<br \/>Ps. Check out what other folks are working on at <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve probably figured out that I have a bit of a Gray fetish. No, not THAT Gray. Gray yarn. So, I went stash diving to find the right gray for the toes of The Husband&#8217;s Gentleman&#8217;s Fancy Socks. I found 50 shades of gray (ok, 9) and they are (from left): Koigu Painter&#8217;s [&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":[202,38,24,42,205,28,25,204,65],"class_list":["post-4245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-gentlemans-fancy-socks","tag-husband","tag-knit","tag-knitting-2","tag-shades-of-gray","tag-sock","tag-socks","tag-solemate","tag-yarn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245","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=4245"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4257,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4245\/revisions\/4257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}