{"id":6184,"date":"2013-07-26T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2013-07-26T07:23:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T12:23:50","slug":"the-socks-formerly-known-as-the-muppet-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"The socks formerly known as the muppet socks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forced this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6132\" target=\"_blank\">yarn to stripe\/bend to my will<\/a> and I&#8217;m terribly pleased with these socks. But, they no longer make me think of Muppets and Rainbow Connections. Now, they make me think of lessons learned, how happy I am that the person they&#8217;re going to LOVES them, and the one time in my life people compared me to a saint.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0216-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Socks\" title=\"Rainbow Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0216-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0216-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Pattern:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/vanessa-antiopa-socks\" target=\"_blank\"> Vanessa antiopa Socks by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Size: Medium<br \/>\n<br \/>Yarn: Lorna&#8217;s Laces Solemate <br \/>When I hand washed\/blocked these socks, they sank like rocks in water. I was surprised by this as my wool socks float. It seems that this yarn (55% superwash merino, 15% nylon, 30% viscose (rayon) fiber that interacts with your body\u2019s microclimate to moderate temperature from being too hot or too cold) does not seem to have the water repelling properties of wool. <br \/>Colorway: Rainbow<br \/>\n<br \/>Mods: The toes should have been all purled, but the giftee and I agreed that we prefer ribbed toes, so the toes match the cuff ribbing.<br \/>\n<br \/>Needles: 2.5mm for the leg, 2.25mm for the foot<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0224-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rainbow Socks\" title=\"Rainbow Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0224-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0224-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" 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>I forced this yarn to stripe\/bend to my will and I&#8217;m terribly pleased with these socks. But, they no longer make me think of Muppets and Rainbow Connections. Now, they make me think of lessons learned, how happy I am that the person they&#8217;re going to LOVES them, and the one time in my life [&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":[22,300,309,25,204,319,65],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-lornas-laces","tag-rainbow","tag-socks","tag-solemate","tag-vanessa-antiopa","tag-yarn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","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=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6206,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}