{"id":3896,"date":"2011-12-19T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2011-12-19T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T23:30:29","slug":"handmade-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/handmade-for-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmade for the Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6540279149\/\" title=\"gifts1 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7004\/6540279149_a9179d3739.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"gifts1\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because I have been filling custom orders (THANK YOU!), I haven&#8217;t really had all that much time to devote to Christmas crafting. I found some time between orders to create for my loved ones and I have a pretty decent pile I&#8217;ll be distributing this weekend. It&#8217;s impressive when you realize I&#8217;ve made these during the past 2-3 weeks. Needless to say, my hands have been busy.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo you see:<br \/>\n1 <a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/lace-love\/lace-love-willow\/\">Willow<\/a><br \/>\n1 <a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/dory\">Dory<\/a><br \/>\n2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/turn-a-square\">Turn a Square<\/a> hats<br \/>\n1 <a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/last-minute-open-rib-hat\/\">Last Minute Open Rib<\/a> hat<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Minute Open Rib,&#8221; you ask? Why, yes. I knit this hat quite a bit, last year, and finally got around to composing a proper pattern for it. I can knit one up in an evening (late night watching old episodes of Sons of Anarchy)!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6539430355\/\" title=\"353.365: window glow by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7003\/6539430355_088d318d49.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"353.365: window glow\"><\/a><BR><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/6540281769\/\" title=\"lm3 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7032\/6540281769_15eed84cd9.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"lm3\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you feel so inclined to make one yourself, please do check out the pattern page, <a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/last-minute-open-rib-hat\/\">HERE<\/A>. Happy knitting!<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Did you make any sweet gifts for your loved ones for Christmas? Please share!<\/p>\n<p><center>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/center><br \/>\nShop note: I&#8217;ll be closing up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/omgknits\" target=\"_blank\">shop<\/a> tomorrow morning for a week. I still have a few ready-to-ship hats, shawlettes, and one doily blanket. Everything except <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/88667343\/crochet-patterns-lace-love-printed\">Lace Love<\/a> ships Priority Mail in the U.S. All orders placed tonight will ship tomorrow! They aren&#8217;t guaranteed to arrive by Christmas, but they&#8217;ll be sent. I&#8217;ll open back up on the 27th. Thank you so much for all of your support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7004\/6540279149_a9179d3739.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"gifts1\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because I have been filling custom orders (THANK YOU!), I haven&#8217;t really had all that much time to devote to Christmas crafting. I found some time between orders to create for my loved ones and I have a pretty decent pile I&#8217;ll be distributing this weekend. It&#8217;s impressive when you realize I&#8217;ve made these during the past 2-3 weeks. Needless to say, my hands have been busy.<\/p>\n<p>In [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":[6,42],"tags":[53,228,227,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896"}],"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=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}