{"id":697,"date":"2009-12-03T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-12-05T00:29:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T05:29:53","slug":"christmas-knitting-detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/christmas-knitting-detour\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas knitting detour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4155695073\/\" title=\"ganomy [2] by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2607\/4155695073_2e45f8e01b_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"ganomy [2]\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>I started gift #9 on Tuesday, but put it down on Wednesday (yesterday) to start a woolly hat for my four year old. His woollies have been passed down to his brother, so his ears are quite cold when we&#8217;re out. And that is just not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I chose one of my all-time favorite hat patterns, <i>Ganomy<\/i> by Elizabeth Zimmermann. It&#8217;s found in the best $7 knitting book out there, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/3350945773\/\"><u>Knitter&#8217;s Almanac<\/u><\/a>. I&#8217;ve read it cover to cover, but I&#8217;ve only made a few items (mainly the babies&#8217; things and hats). It&#8217;s a good read, with a bunch of classic patterns. <\/p>\n<p>I used Paton&#8217;s Classic Wool in the &#8220;that&#8217;s blue&#8221; colorway. It matches Nate&#8217;s school colors and compliments his [brand new] jacket that&#8217;s a few shades of gray. I modified the pattern a bit, to compensate for the thinner yarn. I changed the cast-on to 98 stitches, stopping front increases at 4&#8243;, back increases at 6&#8243;, and then adjusting the decreases as necessary . Size US 8 needles. Less than two days. Success!<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t really want to pose for me, this afternoon. He said he would &#8220;sleep through it.&#8221; It being my snapping pictures of him. He gave up and started playing with cars soon after.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><center><i>Let sleeping gnomes lie.<BR><\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4156456842\/\" title=\"365.337: let sleeping gnomes lie by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2664\/4156456842_d5041f5c09.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"365.337: let sleeping gnomes lie\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2607\/4155695073_2e45f8e01b_m.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" alt=\"ganomy [2]\" align=\"right\"\/>I started gift #9 on Tuesday, but put it down on Wednesday (yesterday) to start a woolly hat for my four year old. His woollies have been passed down to his brother, so his ears are quite cold when we&#8217;re out. And that is just not acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>I chose one of my all-time favorite hat patterns, Ganomy by Elizabeth Zimmermann. It&#8217;s found in the best $7 knitting [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":[23,5,6,4],"tags":[234,227,28,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697"}],"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=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}