{"id":7087,"date":"2014-02-05T04:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7087"},"modified":"2014-02-04T23:13:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T04:13:47","slug":"comfort-knitting-and-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7087","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Knitting and Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knitting what you know is soothing. Especially after going rogue on tiny sweater sleeves and things not going according to plan. I started these socks February first and am hoping to finish in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day (yes, I do like a challenge, why do you ask?). I&#8217;ve not made PINK socks for myself before and I&#8217;m not Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8217;s biggest fan, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/discuss\/violently-domestic-knitters\/topics\" title=\"Violently Domestic Ravelry Group\" target=\"_blank\">February Violently Domestic Danima banksiae socks knit-a-long <\/a>and this pretty pink yarn inspired me to embrace the clich\u00e9.<br \/>\n<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_2757-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"danima-banksiae-sock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_2757-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/IMG_2757-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nok, I did go a little bit rogue, I&#8217;m knitting 66 sts around at a gauge of 8.5 sts\/inch when the pattern calls for a gauge of 6 sts\/inch. But, so far, things are coming up roses. Even the pooling is playing nice!<\/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> (I just started reading Wheat Belly &#8211; it is actually about modern\/hybridized wheat and gluten vs. ancient wheat and has been interesting so far.) <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knitting what you know is soothing. Especially after going rogue on tiny sweater sleeves and things not going according to plan. I started these socks February first and am hoping to finish in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day (yes, I do like a challenge, why do you ask?). I&#8217;ve not made PINK socks for myself before [&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":[358,22,359,196],"class_list":["post-7087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-danima-banksiae-socks","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-little-green-finch-luxe-perch-yarn","tag-wip-wednesday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087","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=7087"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7100,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7087\/revisions\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}