{"id":5840,"date":"2013-06-07T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2013-06-06T22:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T03:37:40","slug":"elephants-linarias-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5840","title":{"rendered":"Elephants, Linarias, &#038; Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the second sock gave me trouble, I did a bit of marathon knitting and was able to finish my gray socks for the Knit-A-Long after all. I got a kick out of the fact that I watched Mirror Mirror while knitting a mirrored sock; it was a better little Snow White flick than I was expecting. <br \/>\nI also watched Legend of the Guardians which was quite good. Finished grafting the toes during Leap Year (great romantic comedy if you&#8217;ve not seen it) and talked the husband into pausing while I ran outside to snap a couple of pics.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5544-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gray Socks\" title=\"Gray Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5544-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5544-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5544.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5550-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Gray Socks\" title=\"IMG_5550\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5550-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5550-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5550.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nI like how these feel on my feet. (and no, my legs could not be any whiter. I think I could be a stunt double for Casper. Wait. Ghosts don&#8217;t need stunt doubles. I could be a body double for him. You know, in case he has really fat calves&#8230;.and now I&#8217;m realizing, he doesn&#8217;t really have calves. nevermind.)<br \/>\n<br \/>Pattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/linaria-bipartita-socks\">Linaria Bipartita Socks by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\nYarn: The Plucky Knitter Primo Fingering &#8211; Elegant Elephant<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ravel.me\/Kat1e\/lbs\" target=\"_blank\">mine raveled here<br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5565-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Linarias\" title=\"IMG_5565\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5565-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5565-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5565.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>To see what other folks have finished, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target = \"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a>, <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>After the second sock gave me trouble, I did a bit of marathon knitting and was able to finish my gray socks for the Knit-A-Long after all. I got a kick out of the fact that I watched Mirror Mirror while knitting a mirrored sock; it was a better little Snow White flick than I [&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":[109,96,95,22,108,292],"class_list":["post-5840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-elegant-elephant","tag-finished-object-friday","tag-fo-friday","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-primo-fingering","tag-the-plucky-knitter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840","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=5840"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5840\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}