{"id":18381,"date":"2024-01-16T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T22:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=18381"},"modified":"2024-01-22T23:31:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:31:25","slug":"daily_3256_-_black_knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/daily_3256_-_black_knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3256 &#8211; black knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3256_black_knitting.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve finished knitting the sweater and the cardigan and the shawl (although the latter two are waiting for the details before I post photos and finally call them done) which means I don&#8217;t have a single major knitting project ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Before I can start a new project, I&#8217;m going to need more yarn, and the sewing &#038; crafts fair seems like the best solution to that. Buying online seems risky, since I&#8217;m picky about my yarns. The spring sewing fair is coming up in about a month, so I&#8217;ll hold out until then and make do with smaller projects in the meantime, with yarns from my stash.<\/p>\n<p>Right now: another pair of wrist warmers. The first ones I did in sock yarn just to have something, but now I wish I&#8217;d picked something softer. I&#8217;m making this new pair in an alpaca yarn that I found in my yarn drawer. On the plus side: super soft. On the minus side: it&#8217;s black and very fine, which makes it difficult to see what I&#8217;m doing. I can see the difference between knits and purls, but counting rows is hard. Good thing I&#8217;m not doing anything fancy, just plain ribbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finished knitting the sweater and the cardigan and the shawl (although the latter two are waiting for the details before I post photos and finally call them done) which means I don&#8217;t have a single major knitting project ongoing. Before I can start a new project, I&#8217;m going to need more yarn, and the [&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-18381","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\/18381","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=18381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18382,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}