{"id":7905,"date":"2015-04-03T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2015-03-29T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T16:41:17","slug":"heavy-on-the-burnt-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"Heavy on the Burnt Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall of 2008, I was inspired to make a burnt orange and white star baby blanket for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=3045\" title=\"this dear friend\" target=\"_blank\">a dear friend <\/a>who also happens to be a UT grad. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know if she was planning another baby, but it just felt like a good idea. I sent the blanket to the Texas State Fair and it won honorable mention.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_68381-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Star Blanket\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_68381-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMG_68381.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1996_A-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"S_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1996_A-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1996_A-1024x855.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nFast forward to 2014. My good friend welcomed a daughter into the world, and I congratulated her in the best way I know, with very tiny socks.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_6187-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Phalanges\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_6187-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_6187-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_6187-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_6242-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6242\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_6242-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_6242-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_6242-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/phalanges\" title=\"Phalanges\" target=\"_blank\">Phalanges by Clare Devine<\/a><br \/>\nNeedles: 2.25mm<br \/>\nKnitting Time Needed: 9 hours (faster if you&#8217;re proficient at sewing in a picot edging)<br \/>\nYarn: In the end, the Mommy-to-be and I dove into her stash and came up with burnt orange sock yarn. I wanted the orange to be Longhorn approved and her stash is heavy with burnt orange options.<br \/>\n<br \/>Ps. When baby girl has outgrown these socks, I&#8217;ll to turn them into Christmas ornaments. One for baby girl and one for her priceless mom.<\/p>\n<p>Pps. Check out what others have finished at:<br \/>\n<br \/><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>In the fall of 2008, I was inspired to make a burnt orange and white star baby blanket for a dear friend who also happens to be a UT grad. At the time, I didn&#8217;t know if she was planning another baby, but it just felt like a good idea. I sent the blanket to [&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":[50,49,416,377,96,95,24,252,42,182,28,66,25],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-baby","tag-baby-blanket","tag-baby-knitting","tag-creative-friday","tag-finished-object-friday","tag-fo-friday","tag-knit","tag-knit-socks","tag-knitting-2","tag-ornament","tag-sock","tag-sock-yarn","tag-socks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","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=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7936,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}