{"id":15,"date":"2007-12-23T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T22:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=15"},"modified":"2009-10-27T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T16:07:59","slug":"last-minute-handmade-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/23\/last-minute-handmade-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"last-minute handmade gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><BR><a title=\"crochet mug cozies by yarnattacks, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/2124635787\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2223\/2124635787_f906a1c14a_m.jpg\" alt=\"crochet mug cozies\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>so, I had the great idea to make some mug cozies as gifts for people on Christmas. I made 3, thinking that&#8217;s all I&#8217;d need for my son&#8217;s grandparents. Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/impel.us\/\">Jason<\/a> saw them and said that I should make them for so and so and by the time he finished listing names, I needed to have 14! I started on Thursday and only need 2 more to make. The photo on the right shows my original 3.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>At first, I thought I should knit them, as there&#8217;s a great little pattern in the holiday &#8217;07 issue of Interweave Knits, but I got about half-way done with one and it had taken me 2 hours, so I KNEW I had to start crocheting them. after the first, the rest took about an hour each to make. the perfect last-minute gift! I even bought a little Christmas mug for each and we&#8217;re going to put a little pack of gourmet coffee and some biscotti in all of them. fun!<BR><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><BR><a title=\"12 mug cozies by yarnattacks, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/2131750004\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2347\/2131750004_0fc260aa50.jpg\" alt=\"12 mug cozies\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n12\/14<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><BR>Pattern: <\/strong>my own<\/div>\n<div><strong>Yarn:<\/strong> various wool (mainly Paton&#8217;s Classic Wool and Cascade 220)<\/div>\n<div><strong>Hook: <\/strong>size G (4.25 mm)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! stay safe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2223\/2124635787_f906a1c14a_m.jpg\" alt=\"crochet mug cozies\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/>so, I had the great idea to make some mug cozies as gifts for people on Christmas. I made 3, thinking that&#8217;s all I&#8217;d need for my son&#8217;s grandparents. Well, Jason saw them and said that I should make them for so and so and by the time he finished listing names, I needed to have 14! I started on Thursday [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":[7,4],"tags":[53,228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}