{"id":5276,"date":"2013-04-10T07:19:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5276"},"modified":"2013-04-10T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T12:19:33","slug":"let-the-leaves-fall-where-they-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5276","title":{"rendered":"Let the leaves fall where they may&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m test knitting a pattern for Hunter Hammersen and I love the pattern. It is a quick knit, is not overly complicated and I am enchanted by all the leafy business. In a moment of unoriginality, I chose green yarn.<br \/> <br \/>\nI neglected to put two and two together and was supposed to be doing one purl rather than two down each side of the foot. The point of test knitting is to find these spots, so that was all good. But, I&#8217;m just OCD enough that I wanted to &#8220;fix&#8221; my sock. I was feeling both adventurous and lucky, so I decided to ride that wave and drop the stitches and then pick them all up as knit 2 togethers, knits, purls, and slip slip knits as they should have been. I was more than a little pleased with myself to turn this<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5000-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green Sock 1\" title=\"Green Sock 1\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5000-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5000-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5000.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\ninto this<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5002-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green sock 2\" title=\"Green sock 2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5002-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5002-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5002.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\ninto this!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5003-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Green sock 3\" title=\"Green sock 3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5003-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5003-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_5003.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\nIn other more exciting news, Hunter&#8217;s new book is available for pre-order and it is lovely. She has some nice goodies for folks that pre-order now, so pop on over and pick it up.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pantsvillepress.com\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet-vol-ii\/\" title=\"knitters-curiosity-cabinet-vol-ii\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pantsvillepress.com\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet-vol-ii\/<\/a><br \/>\nI knit the Polyommatus argiolus socks and the Smerinthus ocellatus socks, so I can vouch for the patterns being both beautiful and well-written.<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> (I just started Vampire Academy on my nook, so no pic for the Yarn Along.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m test knitting a pattern for Hunter Hammersen and I love the pattern. It is a quick knit, is not overly complicated and I am enchanted by all the leafy business. In a moment of unoriginality, I chose green yarn. I neglected to put two and two together and was supposed to be doing one [&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":[258,22,264,196],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-hazel-knits","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-leaf-2","tag-wip-wednesday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","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=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5284,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions\/5284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}