{"id":206,"date":"2004-09-26T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=206"},"modified":"2004-09-26T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:24:19","slug":"i-finally-took-a-usable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"I finally took a usable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took a usable picture of DH&#8217;s sweater today.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DHsweater.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/DHsweater.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"287\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIt is actually black, not the blue that the picture suggests on my monitor. I have since finished the other side of the front and cast on for the back.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why this sweater gave me so much grief to start with, because I am quite enjoying knitting it now, even if it does get boring after a while. The Silkroad is <i>lovely<\/i> to knit with. My DH is not a small man, and the resulting sweater is rather large to knit!<br \/>\nTomorrow is the first day of the local school holidays. Em has a dance competition tomorrow and Tuesday, so hopefully that will mean knitting time. I also only have 15 more costumes to make (in four weeks!)<br \/>\nEm has made a bit of progress on her &#8220;Little Friend&#8221;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emsknitting260904.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/emsknitting260904.jpg\" width=\"312\" height=\"226\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s knitted in Jo Sharp DK wool. The garter stitch bit will be the skirt, and the stockinette will be the top. She still has some work to do before felting! There is a neckband, face, hair, then the arms and legs need to be done on a French Knitting spool.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll keep you all updated \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally took a usable picture of DH&#8217;s sweater today. It is actually black, not the blue that the picture suggests on my monitor. I have since finished the other side of the front and cast on for the back. I don&#8217;t know why this sweater gave me so much grief to start with, because [&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-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}