{"id":149,"date":"2004-07-21T23:44:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-07-21T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T13:44:42","slug":"look-what-came-in-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Look what came in the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look what came in the mail today!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toybook.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/toybook.JPG\" width=\"254\" height=\"319\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nYet another eBay buy. I bought it to encourage Em, who is having trouble staying interested enough in anything to finish it. It claims that even if you&#8217;ve never knitted anything you&#8217;ll be able to make these. Each toy is made of garter stitch squares. They are all knitted in 8ply (DK), and are apparently easy.<br \/>\nGauge won&#8217;t matter. If my row gauge is short, I&#8217;ll have shorter fatter toys &#8211; more cute, right?  MWAHAHAHAHA.<br \/>\nI may knit every damn toy in the book! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"toys.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/toys.JPG\" width=\"388\" height=\"274\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOf course, I <i>have<\/i> to knit the polar bear!<br \/>\nI have been knitting on DH&#8217;s sock, I am determined to finish it this week. I have joined the yahoo group for the six sox knitalong, and looked at the patterns. If I knit socks for myself, the gauge doesn&#8217;t matter too much. And surely even I can knit six pairs of socks in a year. Well, ten and a half months, the knitalong started back on June 1. Oops. Maybe I can use some of my sick sock yarn stash \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nNever fear, I haven&#8217;t given up altogether. In fact, I just bought enough Jo Sharp yarn on eBay to make myself a sweater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look what came in the mail today! Yet another eBay buy. I bought it to encourage Em, who is having trouble staying interested enough in anything to finish it. It claims that even if you&#8217;ve never knitted anything you&#8217;ll be able to make these. Each toy is made of garter stitch squares. They are all [&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-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}