{"id":1166,"date":"2013-08-04T12:07:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-08-04T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T02:07:20","slug":"lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"Lucky!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I knit a Tempest cardi back in Mid-2010. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4757524628_0973bb945b_z1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4757524628_0973bb945b_z1-402x600.jpg\" alt=\"4757524628_0973bb945b_z\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4757524628_0973bb945b_z1-402x600.jpg 402w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4757524628_0973bb945b_z1-321x480.jpg 321w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/4757524628_0973bb945b_z1.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wear it a lot. It&#8217;s knit out of Wollmeise, and there&#8217;s been no pilling, it hasn&#8217;t lost its shape, it&#8217;s been great. But I lost a button. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110760.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110760-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"P1110760\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110760-600x450.jpg 600w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110760-480x360.jpg 480w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110760.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to tell, because the cardi has the buttons unevenly placed &#8211; the buttons are further apart on the wide stripes, and closer together on the narrow stripes. But there is one missing, down on the second lowest narrow stripe. I&#8217;ve been trying to ignore it, because I didn&#8217;t purchase any extra when I bought them, and I didn&#8217;t really want to replace all of the buttons. I got the buttons at the button shop at Newtown on a shopping date with Knitabulous, and I thought it&#8217;d be a long shot that they&#8217;d still have them.<\/p>\n<p>But two weeks ago, David and I headed off to Newtown, and while we were there, I popped into the buttons shop. Not particularly looking for these buttons, because you know, three years and all. I just happen to be a button fiend and was looking out for new buttons.<\/p>\n<p>But lo and behold!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110762.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110762-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"P1110762\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110762-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110762-360x480.jpg 360w, http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1110762.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They had about 5 left. I bought a spare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I knit a Tempest cardi back in Mid-2010. I wear it a lot. It&#8217;s knit out of Wollmeise, and there&#8217;s been no pilling, it hasn&#8217;t lost its shape, it&#8217;s been great. But I lost a button. It&#8217;s hard to tell, because the cardi has the buttons unevenly placed &#8211; the buttons are further apart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","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=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}