{"id":8874,"date":"2017-05-07T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2017-05-07T16:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T21:52:03","slug":"43-shades-of-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=8874","title":{"rendered":"43 Shades of Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My love for gray is a real thing. It matches everything as easily as my favorite pair of blue jeans. I&#8217;m a little bit OCD, so things that match without effort have a special place in my heart.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4903.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8886\" \/><br \/>\nWhen Hunter Hammersen asked if I wanted to knit for Curls 2, I leapt at the chance. (spellcheck says I leaped, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I leapt). My response was something like, &#8220;Gray? YES, PLEASE!&#8221;. Hunter mailed the yarn and I cast on as soon as it arrived. She included a swatch and the size needles she&#8217;d used. I went up something like 5 needle sizes to get a fabric similar to her swatch. I may have been wound a little tight. I&#8217;d never knit a Curl before and didn&#8217;t want to mess it up. So I cast on with US size 9?!? needles.  A few repeats in, I remembered that I know how to knit and swapped out for 7&#8217;s which seemed a bit more reasonable. One more repeat in, I settled into the thing and found myself on 5&#8217;s.  A season (or two) of Vikings later, we had a lovely wrap.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_4923.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8888\" \/><br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/mendacity\" target=\"_blank\">Mendacity by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\nBook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/sources\/curls-2-versatile-wearable-wraps-to-knit-at-any-gauge\/patterns\" target=\"_blank\">Curls 2<\/a><br \/>\nYarn: Malabrigo Yarn Rastita<br \/>\nColorway: 43 Plomo<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_2291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8881\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My love for gray is a real thing. It matches everything as easily as my favorite pair of blue jeans. I&#8217;m a little bit OCD, so things that match without effort have a special place in my heart. When Hunter Hammersen asked if I wanted to knit for Curls 2, I leapt at the chance. [&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":[479,173,22,60,481,480,12],"class_list":["post-8874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-curls","tag-gray","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-malabrigo","tag-malabrigo-yarn","tag-rastita","tag-ravelry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874","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=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8893,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/8893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}