{"id":20180,"date":"2025-02-19T22:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20180"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:15:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:15:45","slug":"daily_3641_-_back_on_the_needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/02\/19\/daily_3641_-_back_on_the_needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3641 &#8211; back on the needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3641_re_knit.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/01\/20\/daily_3611_-_orange_sweater\/\">orange sweater<\/a> feels great (the yarn is incredibly smooth!), looks great, and fits great. Except for the length. I made it a bit shorter than I usually make my sweaters, because I thought it looked good that way with the straight, slightly boxy fit. Now that I&#8217;m wearing it, though, it&#8217;s always riding up when I move around, and I don&#8217;t like the length.<\/p>\n<p>You know what? I have everything that I need to make it fit better. With a hand-knit garment I have all the power. The leftover yarn is still in my knitting basket, and the 2.5mm needles are free. I even have that dash of late-night &#8220;just do it&#8221; recklessness to just pick out the last yarn end and rip back the ribbed bottom hem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The orange sweater feels great (the yarn is incredibly smooth!), looks great, and fits great. Except for the length. I made it a bit shorter than I usually make my sweaters, because I thought it looked good that way with the straight, slightly boxy fit. Now that I&#8217;m wearing it, though, it&#8217;s always riding 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-20180","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\/20180","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=20180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20182,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20180\/revisions\/20182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}