{"id":8288,"date":"2016-01-03T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2016-01-03T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T21:52:13","slug":"frankensocks-gone-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=8288","title":{"rendered":"Frankensocks gone awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I cannot be bothered to do anything the easy way, I decided to try a pair of scrappy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEff11\/PATTinlay.php\" target=\"_blank\">Inlay socks<\/a>. I knew there was a solid chance that I wasn&#8217;t going to love them, but what if I do? I had to find out. I&#8217;m no good at wondering &#8220;What if?&#8221;. Just over one chart repeat in, I realized the half of me that thought this wasn&#8217;t going to end well was spot on. This pattern is too pretty not to use solid yarn.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0139-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Inlay\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0139-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0139-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_0139-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n So, I ruthlessly frogged and began the hunt for my next <del datetime=\"2016-01-03T15:21:49+00:00\">victim<\/del> pattern. I considered the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/dalekanium\" target=\"_blank\">Dalekanium pattern<\/a> after admiring <a href=\"http:\/\/peaceableliberal.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/please-do-not-exterminate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bonnie&#8217;s pair<\/a>. I enjoy the look of this pattern with stripes, but it&#8217;s toe up which doesn&#8217;t jive with my scrappy vision. I looked at some cuff down slip stitch patterns, but they just don&#8217;t have the same lines. So, I started brainstorming other cuff down patterns I&#8217;m familiar with and thought of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6384\" target=\"_blank\">Lycaena virgaureae Socks<\/a> I gifted and decided I need a pair of my own. These may be just what the Dr. ordered. Only time will tell!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0659-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lycaena virgaureae socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0659-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0659-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0670-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lycaena virgaureae socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-\n6385\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I cannot be bothered to do anything the easy way, I decided to try a pair of scrappy Inlay socks. I knew there was a solid chance that I wasn&#8217;t going to love them, but what if I do? I had to find out. I&#8217;m no good at wondering &#8220;What if?&#8221;. Just over one [&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":[395,24,252,42,434,25],"class_list":["post-8288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-handknit","tag-knit","tag-knit-socks","tag-knitting-2","tag-sock-sock-yarn","tag-socks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288","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=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}