{"id":2194,"date":"2011-04-06T21:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T02:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2011-04-06T21:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T02:15:09","slug":"knitting-the-pickle-pillow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/knitting-the-pickle-pillow\/","title":{"rendered":"knitting: the pickle pillow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5596963312\/\" title=\"96.365: the pickle pillow by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5230\/5596963312_6368236c3e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"96.365: the pickle pillow\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I made this enormous bolster pillow and the kids immediately started calling it &#8220;the pickle pillow.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t really fit on the love seat (I needs a couch, yo), so the boys use it as a head rest when they&#8217;re laying in front of the tube watching episodes of <i>Inspector Gadget<\/i>. It&#8217;s their new favorite TV show. It&#8217;s 22 minutes, so they get to watch one episode unless they&#8217;re sick and quarantined to the living room.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5596962772\/\" title=\"I love garter stitch by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5221\/5596962772_39c000bee7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"I love garter stitch\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5596961102\/\" title=\"fat garter stitch by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5221\/5596961102_825859c7b9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"fat garter stitch\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Details:<br \/>\nTWO strands of Lion Brand Wool-ease Thick &#038; Quick in <i>lemongrass<\/i> (which was ON CLEARANCE at my local Michael&#8217;s last week for $3.99\/ball)<br \/>\nSize US19 needles.<br \/>\n35 (or 36? something like that) stitches and approximately 22 garter ridges (44 knit rows).<br \/>\nSeam the BO to the CO, then cinch one end shut.<br \/>\nFold a towel in half (short end to short end), then roll it up and wrap it with a few layers of quilt batting.<br \/>\nI made an inside case with some green fabric so the guts wouldn&#8217;t be so obvious through the stretched stitches.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff it! Close the other end.<\/p>\n<p>I LOVE garter stitch. It&#8217;s so easy and textural and&#8230;&#8230;yeah! it&#8217;s awesome. <3\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5230\/5596963312_6368236c3e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"96.365: the pickle pillow\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I made this enormous bolster pillow and the kids immediately started calling it &#8220;the pickle pillow.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t really fit on the love seat (I needs a couch, yo), so the boys use it as a head rest when they&#8217;re laying in front of the tube watching episodes of Inspector Gadget. It&#8217;s their new favorite TV show. It&#8217;s 22 minutes, so they get to watch [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,6,42],"tags":[81,227,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}