{"id":12461,"date":"2020-03-04T19:21:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12461"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:33:21","slug":"daily_1880_-_swatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/03\/04\/daily_1880_-_swatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1880 &#8211; swatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1880_swatches.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m preparing for a new knitting project, by knitting gauge swatches. <\/p>\n<p>I <b>will<\/b> have a green cardigan!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garnstudio.com\/pattern.php?id=152\">a new pattern<\/a> that seems a bit more complicated than the previous one I tried making but maybe, hopefully, is also more forgiving. The bottom half is in cabled ribbing which should be nicely stretchy so the I don&#8217;t need to get the sizing 100% perfect. And the top half is simple stockinette stitch with no lacy complications, so the gauge swatch should be a good predictor of sizing for that part. The fit and sizing of the sleeves will probably be the trickiest part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m preparing for a new knitting project, by knitting gauge swatches. I will have a green cardigan! I&#8217;ve found a new pattern that seems a bit more complicated than the previous one I tried making but maybe, hopefully, is also more forgiving. The bottom half is in cabled ribbing which should be nicely stretchy so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12466,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12461\/revisions\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}