{"id":1003,"date":"2010-06-20T15:38:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T05:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2010-06-20T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T05:38:01","slug":"requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I finished the knitting on the main body of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimhargreaves.co.uk\/acatalog\/copy_of_copy_of_SHIMMER.html\">Shimmer<\/a>, and she&#8217;s been blocked, just awaiting seaming and bands now.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20002.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20002.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20002-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThis seemed to go on forever, even though it hasn&#8217;t really been that long. I love the pattern, love the yarn, so I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve felt ambivalent towards it. The colour is more coral than I was expecting when I ordered it, so that might be it. The longer I look at it, the more orange and less pink it looks. And I&#8217;m definitely not an orange lover.<br \/>\nAnyway, I knew the end was approaching, so I&#8217;d been looking about for my next project, unable to make a decision. Then, on Friday afternoon, Emily came home and told me it was her friend R&#8217;s 18th birthday next Friday. And when Emily asked her what gift she&#8217;d like, she got all excited and asked if Em thought I&#8217;d knit her &#8220;one of those cool hats like the ones you have?!?&#8221;<br \/>\nHow can I resist a request like that?<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20004.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20004.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/200610%20004-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIshbel it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I finished the knitting on the main body of Shimmer, and she&#8217;s been blocked, just awaiting seaming and bands now. This seemed to go on forever, even though it hasn&#8217;t really been that long. I love the pattern, love the yarn, so I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve felt ambivalent towards it. The colour is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}