{"id":3645,"date":"2017-07-13T19:08:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2017-07-13T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:11:09","slug":"another-pair-and-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Another pair and more to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished another pair of socks for Jacob today.\u00a0 The pattern<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Socks-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Socks-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a> was free from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marymaxim.com\/\">Mary Maxim<\/a> called Basic Knit Socks.\u00a0 Because the yarn has dying errors (as pointed out by the dyer), it was heavily discounted from Twisted Threds in colorway Toucan.\u00a0 Since my favorite hues are jewel tones, I decided to take a chance and purchased the yarn.\u00a0 I knew as soon as it arrived, it would be a favorite.\u00a0 I would have happily paid full price for this yarn!<\/p>\n<p>This makes pair #8 since starting sock knitting back in February and if today&#8217;s mail is any indication, there will be more in the near future!<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, upon finishing these socks this morning, I pulled yarn from my stash while planning my next projects.\u00a0 I need to knit a few washcloths (already spoken for) and there&#8217;s a hank of sock yarn ready to become socks.<\/p>\n<p>Then today&#8217;s mail came which included a squishy package I opened immediately.\u00a0 Out popped the prettiest yarn I&#8217;ve seen in a while (Do I say this about every yarn ordered?!).\u00a0 My plans are growing wings to fly out the window as I am winding this new hank for another pair of socks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s SO, SO pretty!!<\/p>\n<p>Fingers, knit FASTER!<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished another pair of socks for Jacob today.\u00a0 The pattern was free from Mary Maxim called Basic Knit Socks.\u00a0 Because the yarn has dying errors (as pointed out by the dyer), it was heavily discounted from Twisted Threds in colorway Toucan.\u00a0 Since my favorite hues are jewel tones, I decided to take a chance<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=3645\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}