{"id":388,"date":"2005-07-13T22:46:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-13T12:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=388"},"modified":"2005-07-13T22:46:23","modified_gmt":"2005-07-13T12:46:23","slug":"388","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Fair isle Hat.<br \/>\nNow you see it.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hat1307051.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/hat1307051.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nNow you don&#8217;t.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hat1307052.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/hat1307052.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"297\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nMy gauge was off. Way off. Recommended gauge was 8sts\/1&#8243;. When i finally thought to check it, it was 6sts\/1&#8243;.  So I bit the bullet and ripped it. This, by the way is my preferred method of frogging if possible.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"hat130705pickup.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/hat130705pickup.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI was knitting the body with a 3.25mm needle as recommended, so I used a 2.5mm needle to carefully pick up each stitch in the first stockinette row, then I ripped it out until I got back to the needle.<br \/>\nAs I said, the recommended needle was a 3.25mm. I should have known better,  I always have to go down a needle size, but I don&#8217;t have a 3mm, and I was impatient. After checking my gauge, I thought a 3mm would probably still be too big, but I don&#8217;t have a 2.75mm either. I measured my ribbing, and 2 plain stitches measured around a 1\/4&#8243;, so I&#8217;m going to try the 2.5mm needle for the body. Big scientific theory here. Gauge swatch, my butt. \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nCross your fingers for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Fair isle Hat. Now you see it. Now you don&#8217;t. My gauge was off. Way off. Recommended gauge was 8sts\/1&#8243;. When i finally thought to check it, it was 6sts\/1&#8243;. So I bit the bullet and ripped it. This, by the way is my preferred method of frogging if possible. I was knitting [&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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}