{"id":22743,"date":"2026-07-30T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=22743"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:44:05","slug":"daily_4166_-_socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/07\/30\/daily_4166_-_socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4166 &#8211; socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4166_socks_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Working on ways to do something with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/daily_3752_-_a_heap_of_sock_yarn\/\">all the sock yarn I have<\/a> that are almost-but-not-quite enough for a full pair, and don&#8217;t pair up well.<\/p>\n<p>This attempt came out quite nice, if I say so myself. A colourful gradient yarn combined with a neutral, with a simple slipped-stitch pattern to make it slightly more interesting than just plain stripes.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite as mindless knitting as socks have become for me. The pattern has a three-row repeat, and it took me a good while to get used to it. I kept forgetting that I had an actual pattern to pay attention to, and tended to just keep going with whatever row I was on when I picked them up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_5\/4166_socks_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working on ways to do something with all the sock yarn I have that are almost-but-not-quite enough for a full pair, and don&#8217;t pair up well. This attempt came out quite nice, if I say so myself. A colourful gradient yarn combined with a neutral, with a simple slipped-stitch pattern to make it slightly more [&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-22743","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\/22743","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=22743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22745,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/revisions\/22745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}