{"id":13886,"date":"2020-11-21T22:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T21:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13886"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:32:37","slug":"daily_2138_-_the_socks_are_piling_up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/daily_2138_-_the_socks_are_piling_up\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2138 &#8211; the socks are piling up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2138_unfinished_socks.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nMy knitting basket is overflowing with nearly-finished socks. First I knitted one pair, to give away. Figuring out the sizing took a few attempts, but the second sock went fast because I now had the pattern worked out for this exact size and this exact yarn.<\/p>\n<p>Well. If the first sock is the time-consuming one and the next one goes fast, why not make more of those fast ones? I have the pattern now, and I have one more skein of the exact same yarn, so let&#8217;s be efficient and make use of this! I know more than one person with size 42\/43 feet who might benefit from a pair of sturdy woollen socks. Actually, most people in this part of the world probably would.<\/p>\n<p>The second pair will be for a secret Santa gift exchange at work. They&#8217;ll have some nice tretton37 styling in duplicate stitch, i.e. embroidery that looks like knitting (<i>maskstygn<\/i>\/can&#8217;t find the Estonian name). I&#8217;m excited about doing the embroidery so I&#8217;m all focused on finishing the second sock in this pair and getting started on the decorations, and putting off the much more boring work of weaving in the yarn ends on all the finished socks. 3 socks 99% done, 1 sock 90% done, not one 100% done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My knitting basket is overflowing with nearly-finished socks. First I knitted one pair, to give away. Figuring out the sizing took a few attempts, but the second sock went fast because I now had the pattern worked out for this exact size and this exact yarn. Well. If the first sock is the time-consuming one [&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-13886","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\/13886","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=13886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13889,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13886\/revisions\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}