{"id":5997,"date":"2013-06-26T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2013-06-26T07:37:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:37:41","slug":"its-not-easy-being-green-or-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5997","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not easy being green. or is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finished the first Muppet sock (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/vanessa-antiopa-socks\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa antiopa Socks<\/a> by Hunter Hammersen) including switching out the purled toe for a ribbed toe to match the cuff. I didn&#8217;t love the idea of a purled toe with this colorway &#8211; I do love the ribbed toe.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5663-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Muppet Sock\" title=\"Muppet Sock\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5663-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5663-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5663.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Then, I started the second sock. Wasn&#8217;t happy with the pooling (deja vu) &#8211; too much green all on one side. Frogged it. Started over.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5659-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Muppet Sock &amp; book\" title=\"Muppet Sock &amp; book\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5659-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5659-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5659.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThese socks were going to be for my mom and I was worried they would be too small. They were a wee bit tight and it turns out that she&#8217;s not a huge fan of the colorway even though she did like the pattern. Luckily for me, Turtle LOVES the colors and they&#8217;ll fit her. Winning!<br \/>\n<br \/>To see what others are working on, check out: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things<\/a> (I&#8217;m reading &#8220;French Women Don&#8217;t Get Fat&#8221; for the third time. This book really motivates me to only eat things that satisfy me.)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished the first Muppet sock (Vanessa antiopa Socks by Hunter Hammersen) including switching out the purled toe for a ribbed toe to match the cuff. I didn&#8217;t love the idea of a purled toe with this colorway &#8211; I do love the ribbed toe. Then, I started the second sock. Wasn&#8217;t happy with the pooling [&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":[296,300,309,204,196,257],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-keep-calm-craft-on","tag-lornas-laces","tag-rainbow","tag-solemate","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\/5997","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=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}