{"id":18081,"date":"2023-10-28T23:33:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-28T22:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18081"},"modified":"2023-11-03T23:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T22:42:03","slug":"daily_3178_-_swatch_on_sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/10\/28\/daily_3178_-_swatch_on_sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3178 &#8211; swatch on sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3178_swatch_on_sticks.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nIn addition to my purchases yesterday, I also bought some yarn from a local yarn shop here in Sp\u00e5nga for a brown cardigan.<\/p>\n<p>This yarn is thicker than anything I&#8217;ve used for a sweater before, and the label recommended 6 mm needles. The largest &#8220;normal&#8221; needles I had were 5 mm, so I knitted up a swatch with those first, but I did want to do another with the recommended needle size.<\/p>\n<p>The only 6 mm needles I had were these old wooden ones, that I&#8217;ve only used for teaching Ingrid and Adrian to knit. They were like sticks in my hands, and I felt like I was play-acting knitting. I didn&#8217;t like the look of the result, either &#8211; it was floppy and thin &#8211; so luckily I&#8217;ll be using the more normal 5 mm needles for the cardigan itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my purchases yesterday, I also bought some yarn from a local yarn shop here in Sp\u00e5nga for a brown cardigan. This yarn is thicker than anything I&#8217;ve used for a sweater before, and the label recommended 6 mm needles. The largest &#8220;normal&#8221; needles I had were 5 mm, so I knitted up [&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-18081","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\/18081","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=18081"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18086,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18081\/revisions\/18086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}