{"id":686,"date":"2009-11-24T18:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2009-11-24T18:57:51","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T23:57:51","slug":"gift-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/gift-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Handmade gift pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, I added two gifts to my pile. They were easy peasy, as most comments on <a href=\"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/mary-jane-slippers\/\">my pattern<\/a> can attest to.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4132360872\/\" title=\"365.326: platter of handmade gifts by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2605\/4132360872_7cf3bdc268.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"365.326: platter of handmade gifts\" style=\"border:1px solid black\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve added two more. As of <b>today<\/b>, I have 7 gifts complete. I started #8 this morning. I lowered my list by 1, but I think I&#8217;m going to re-knit #3, so I&#8217;m back to the 14 total. 7 of 14 complete means I&#8217;m halfway there! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak peek at gift #6. It took me about 2 days to complete, which isn&#8217;t bad at all. I was able to finish it so quickly because my boys were sick, so we stayed in all weekend. Movie are great for knitting. Gift #7 is just a plain crochet beanie, so he won&#8217;t get any time in the spotlight of my camera.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4132371266\/\" title=\"365.327: peek at gift #6 by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2663\/4132371266_2e191d200f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"365.327: peek at gift #6\" style=\"border:1px solid black\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4132370758\/\" title=\"gift #6 peek [2] by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2574\/4132370758_2968691625.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"gift #6 peek [2]\" style=\"border:1px solid black\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving! I&#8217;m hoping the nagging cough both my boys have is kaput by Thursday morning. I&#8217;m going to have a hard time feeling comfortable anywhere but home with two little ones sounding like they&#8217;re hacking up a lung. They had fevers all weekend, but those are gone, so I&#8217;ve set their status to &#8220;on the mend.&#8221; Let&#8217;s hope it stays that way. Andy&#8217;s suspicious coughing episode this afternoon had me worried for a bit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, I added two gifts to my pile. They were easy peasy, as most comments on my pattern can attest to.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2605\/4132360872_7cf3bdc268.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"365.326: platter of handmade gifts\" style=\"border:1px solid black\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve added two more. As of today, I have 7 gifts complete. I started #8 this morning. I lowered my list by 1, but I think I&#8217;m going to re-knit #3, so I&#8217;m back to the 14 [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":[23,7,5,6,42,4],"tags":[234,27,53,227,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686"}],"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=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}