{"id":5035,"date":"2013-03-27T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:23:47","slug":"the-line-between-fan-and-stalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"The line between fan and stalker."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Hunter Hammersen&#8217;s patterns, I tend to be a bit of a fangirl. I haven&#8217;t made a Team Hunter T-shirt yet, but don&#8217;t think I haven&#8217;t considered it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nameless1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nameless1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gray socks\" title=\"Gray socks\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nameless1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nameless1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/nameless1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> <br \/>I&#8217;ve been admiring these <a href=\"http:\/\/violentlydomestic.com\/2012\/10\/31\/look-stitches\/\" target=\"_blank\">grayish socks<\/a> on her blog for months&#8230;.to the degree that I contacted her to see when the pattern might be out (I may have a problem). There was a moment when she thought I was peaking in her windows to see what she was knitting, but it turns out these lace socks are just more light blue than gray in real life. Nevertheless, I&#8217;m sure there are days when she&#8217;s comforted by the fact that I live in Texas.<br \/>\nFast forward. She called for testers and check out what&#8217;s on my needles!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4905-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gold Socks\" title=\"Gold Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5036\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4905-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4905-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/IMG_4905.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe gray (light blue) lacy socks in Madeline Tosh Merino Light &#8211; winter wheat!<br \/>\n<br \/>Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things Yarn Along<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to Hunter Hammersen&#8217;s patterns, I tend to be a bit of a fangirl. I haven&#8217;t made a Team Hunter T-shirt yet, but don&#8217;t think I haven&#8217;t considered it. I&#8217;ve been admiring these grayish socks on her blog for months&#8230;.to the degree that I contacted her to see when the pattern might be [&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":[22,252,251,196],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-knit-socks","tag-lacy-socks","tag-wip-wednesday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}