{"id":208,"date":"2004-09-29T22:37:55","date_gmt":"2004-09-29T12:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=208"},"modified":"2004-09-29T22:37:55","modified_gmt":"2004-09-29T12:37:55","slug":"ive-been-working-hard-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve been working hard on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working hard on DH&#8217;s sweater, and am already halfway up the back, yippee!!<br \/>\nNo pictures, because it&#8217;s still boring, LOL! Look at the picture from the front a few days ago, and imagine it only half way up. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nEm has been busy, too.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"emsfriend.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/emsfriend.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"273\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s her &#8220;Little Friend&#8221;. She is knitting it as a gift for a teacher for christmas. That&#8217;s the face that she&#8217;s up to now. She has followed the pattern to the letter, but I think I&#8217;ll have a look at it before she knits another, and eliminate that first ridge on the &#8220;neckband&#8221; where you can see where she changed colours.<br \/>\nAfter the face, she does a few rows of &#8220;hair&#8221; then casts off, sews it together into a tube, ad sews the top closed. Then we knit arms and legs with a french knitter.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skinnyrabbit.com\/\">Becky<\/a> asked the other day if we have a French Knitter. The kit for the Little Friend came with a cute little one \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"frenchknitter.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/frenchknitter.jpg\" width=\"172\" height=\"238\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nHere in Australia we commonly call them French Knitters, Knitting Nancy&#8217;s or Knitting Nanna&#8217;s. At the end, the whole lot is felted, so it is very forgiving of little mistakes that may happen \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s moving along on it alot faster than I expected her to, and she apparently has plans for a whole army of little Friends for Christmas Gifts.<br \/>\nLook out, World \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working hard on DH&#8217;s sweater, and am already halfway up the back, yippee!! No pictures, because it&#8217;s still boring, LOL! Look at the picture from the front a few days ago, and imagine it only half way up. \ud83d\ude42 Em has been busy, too. That&#8217;s her &#8220;Little Friend&#8221;. She is knitting it as [&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-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}