{"id":2013,"date":"2016-05-28T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2016-10-26T05:29:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:29:12","slug":"knitting-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/28\/knitting-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a new baby sweater for a coworker who&#8217;s recently adopted a toddler. The pattern is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/metamorphic\">Metamorphic<\/a>, and if you use three shades of the same colour, you get a cool ombre effect. I&#8217;m doing it in shades of brown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/karenrsavage.com\/blog-images\/metamorph.jpg\" alt=\"Metamorphic Sweater\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always known that I&#8217;m a tight knitter, but it was really driven home to me when I started this sweater. The pattern calls for DK weight yarn, but I could only find three shades of the same colour in worsted. For a normal knitter, this would mean that you&#8217;d have to go down a needle size to account for the thicker yarn, but when I started swatching, I found I needed to go <em>up<\/em> a needle size!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been tempted to instagram my food, but it occurred to me this past week, watching a few friends at knitting circle trying to get good shots of their projects, that we look just like those food bloggers when we&#8217;re doing so. I have found myself perching on a step stool perched on a chair to get the height needed to photograph some of my larger projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working on a new baby sweater for a coworker who&#8217;s recently adopted a toddler. The pattern is called Metamorphic, and if you use three shades of the same colour, you get a cool ombre effect. I&#8217;m doing it in shades of brown. I&#8217;ve always known that I&#8217;m a tight knitter, but it was really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[293,308],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-pics","tag-knit","tag-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenrsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}