{"id":5742,"date":"2013-05-22T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2013-05-22T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T14:21:00","slug":"gray-socks-and-last-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"Gray socks and last call&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally knit brightly colored socks. Brightly colored yarn just calls my name. But, every once in a while, I&#8217;m wearing an outfit that calls for gray or black socks, so I needed to knit some. I mentioned this to Hunter Hammersen one day <a href=\"http:\/\/violentlydomestic.com\/2013\/05\/08\/i-play-chicken-with-the-train\/#comments\" target=\"_blank\">via her blog<\/a> and she voted gray. I also mentioned my plan to Bonita (the soon to be owner of the Zombie socks) and she said, &#8220;I think I recall you knitting some black socks at some point and hating it enough that even I was scarred&#8230;.don&#8217;t you think that means something?&#8221;<br \/>\nIt does. If Bonita and Hunter both vote gray, then gray socks I shall have!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5330-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Linaria\" title=\"Linaria\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5330-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5330-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5330.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/linaria-bipartita-socks\" target=\"_blank\">Pattern: Linaria Bipartita Socks by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\nYarn:  The Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering<br \/>\nColorway: Elegant Elephant<br \/>\nLAST CALL!<br \/>\nIf you have yet to buy Hunter&#8217;s most recent book, <a href=\"http:\/\/pantsvillepress.com\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet\/knitters-curiosity-cabinet-vol-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s still a discount and free pattern special if you go buy it right this second!<\/a> What are you waiting for?!? There&#8217;s a great group of folks doing a Knit-a-Long on ravelry soon and you don&#8217;t want to miss out on all the fun!<\/p>\n<p><\/a><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:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I generally knit brightly colored socks. Brightly colored yarn just calls my name. But, every once in a while, I&#8217;m wearing an outfit that calls for gray or black socks, so I needed to knit some. I mentioned this to Hunter Hammersen one day via her blog and she voted gray. I also mentioned my [&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":[109,22,296,295,224,292,196,257],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-elegant-elephant","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-keep-calm-craft-on","tag-linaria-bipartita-socks","tag-plucky-knitter-primo-fingering","tag-the-plucky-knitter","tag-wip-wednesday","tag-yarn-along"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","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=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}