{"id":6827,"date":"2014-01-03T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2014-01-01T23:27:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:27:13","slug":"sheep-ball-for-bonnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6827","title":{"rendered":"Sheep Ball for Bonnie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m friends with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/tiny-sock-ornament\" title=\"Bonnie\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie<\/a> and we exchange Christmas ornaments. Now, she&#8217;s quite the knitter, so I wanted to find something special. I ran across these cute sheep ornaments and knew I&#8217;d found it. My first take was too small to fit over the plastic ball I wanted to use so I stuffed it, but it just wasn&#8217;t quite up to snuff, so I went up to size 2.75mm needles and gave it another shot. Moneyball! (I still ended up stuffing it, but these sheep look more like king and queen sheep and not court jester sheep.* Practice makes perfect.)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1989-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep Ball\" title=\"Sheep Ball3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1989-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_1989-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2003-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep Ball\" title=\"Sheep Ball2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2003-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Here&#8217;s the ornament doing a scene from Gone with the Wind.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sheep Ball\" title=\"Sheep Ball\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2014-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2014-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Here&#8217;s the pattern if you fancy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/sheep-balls\" title=\"Sheep Ball Ornament\" target=\"_blank\">some sheep<\/a> for your tree.<br \/>\n<br \/>And look what Bonnie sent. She outdid herself and sent TWO lovely ornaments! This little sock is so perfect I had to ask her if she knit it (even though she mentioned knitting little sock ornaments on her blog &#8211; it looks that good).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2617-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Yarn Basket and Sock\" title=\"Yarn Basket and Sock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2617-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2617-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Aren&#8217;t they too much? I LOVE them! Here are the patterns she used:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/yarn-basket-ornament\" title=\"Yarn Baket Ornament\" target=\"_blank\">Yarn Basket<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/tiny-sock-ornament\" title=\"Tiny Sock Ornament\" target=\"_blank\">Tiny Sock Ornament<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>* No offense to any court jester sheep that may be reading this blog. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all perfectly lovely.<br \/>\n<br \/>Ps. Check out what others have finished at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target = \"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Wisdom begins in Wonder<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalsuburbia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natural Suburbia<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m friends with Bonnie and we exchange Christmas ornaments. Now, she&#8217;s quite the knitter, so I wanted to find something special. I ran across these cute sheep ornaments and knew I&#8217;d found it. My first take was too small to fit over the plastic ball I wanted to use so I stuffed it, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[192,95],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-christmas-ornament","tag-fo-friday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","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=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}