{"id":7824,"date":"2015-02-22T21:48:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T02:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2015-02-24T23:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T04:49:14","slug":"plucky-knitter-plucky-feet-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7824","title":{"rendered":"Plucky Knitter, Plucky Feet, &#038; Purple."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I started using the hashtag #casbahislikecrack, but the more I think about it, the more I hope the good people at Handmaiden are not offended because crack is bad for 1000 different reasons, but hopefully people get what I was trying to say. I digress.<br \/>\n Plucky Knitter yarn is all yummy. Plucky Feet doesn&#8217;t feel quite as nice in the hands as Primo Fingering, but I can tell it&#8217;s going to hold up and I can put up with just a tiny bit less softness for stitch definition this amazing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_97191-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"PurpleSox2\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_97191-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_97191-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_97191-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_04791-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"PurpleSox\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_04791-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_04791-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_04791-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nand the color! My Word, the color! Every time I see these socks, my soul sings. The pattern was a fun knit and it&#8217;s fairly stretchy which I like in a sock. So, spend all your money on yarn and patterns because even though The Husband probably thinks a drug habit might be cheaper, knitting is legal and good for your brain, plus SOCKS!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56721-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"PurpleSox3\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56721-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56721-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56721-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_95351-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"PurpleSox7\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_95351-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_95351-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_95351-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nYarn: Plucky Knitter &#8211; Plucky Feet<br \/>\nColorway: Vignette<br \/>\nNeedles: 2.25mm Signature Needle Arts double-pointed needles (and later 2.25mm addi circulars because I don&#8217;t take Sigs. on planes.)<br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/fucus-asparagoides-sock\" title=\"Fucus asparagoides socks\" target=\"_blank\">Fucus asparagoides socks by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_7831\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56561-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eating Brussels Sprouts makes me feel like a giant eating the heads off tiny cabbage patch kids. But I liked the flavor.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56561-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56561-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_56561-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eating Brussels Sprouts makes me feel like a giant eating the heads off tiny cabbage patch kids. I kind of love it.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Ps. Don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/keep-calm-craft-on-crafting-on_24.html\" title=\"Keep calm and craft on\" target=\"_blank\">Keep calm and Craft on!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I started using the hashtag #casbahislikecrack, but the more I think about it, the more I hope the good people at Handmaiden are not offended because crack is bad for 1000 different reasons, but hopefully people get what I was trying to say. I digress. Plucky Knitter yarn is all yummy. Plucky Feet doesn&#8217;t [&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":[406,395,22,24,252,42,404,107,224,66,25,292,405,65],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-fucus-asparagoides","tag-handknit","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-knit","tag-knit-socks","tag-knitting-2","tag-plucky-feet","tag-plucky-knitter","tag-plucky-knitter-primo-fingering","tag-sock-yarn","tag-socks","tag-the-plucky-knitter","tag-vignette","tag-yarn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824","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=7824"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7860,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7824\/revisions\/7860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}