{"id":6923,"date":"2014-01-15T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6923"},"modified":"2014-01-14T21:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T02:40:38","slug":"the-saga-of-the-left-sock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6923","title":{"rendered":"The Saga of the Left Sock."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that this is a saga has nothing to do with the design. And since I, the knitter, am writing this, I&#8217;m going to say it has nothing to do with the knitter. As I often do when yarn doesn&#8217;t pool in a manner that pleases me, I blame the yarn. Now, I&#8217;ll put up with some misbehavior from a yarn if it will in the end, bend to my will. and it did. After four cast ons, I was able to come up with something other than blue on the front and purple on the back.<br \/>\n<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2642-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Aurin socks\" title=\"Aurin socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2642-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_2642-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>What I note about pooling yarns is that the first one pools like silk and I get suckered in and then the second one eats me for lunch. Isn&#8217;t that always the way? Before too long, Hunter Hammersen will be publishing this pattern, and along with it, there will be more flattering pictures of these beauties. <\/p>\n<p>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> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fact that this is a saga has nothing to do with the design. And since I, the knitter, am writing this, I&#8217;m going to say it has nothing to do with the knitter. As I often do when yarn doesn&#8217;t pool in a manner that pleases me, I blame the yarn. Now, I&#8217;ll put [&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":[350,345,344,22,343],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-aurin","tag-beach-plum","tag-caper-sock-yarn","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-string-theory-yarn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","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=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}