{"id":1834,"date":"2010-12-30T01:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2010-12-30T01:56:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T06:56:09","slug":"exploring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/exploring\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5304172389\/\" title=\"crochet: harlequin stitch by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5045\/5304172389_5feaee3d44.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"crochet: harlequin stitch\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I would go on and on about how tired I was after preparing for the day and then the 3 restless nights I spent with my toddler, who forgot how to sleep, buuuut I don&#8217;t want to!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew finally let us all get some rest and so I&#8217;ve spent the past 2 days cleaning the house (TOY PURGE!) and experimenting with stitch patterns. After making so many of the same hat for my shop and for giveaways, then the dozen or so I made as Christmas gifts, I wanted to work on something <b>new<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>The above is called Harlequin stitch. It was a huge pain. I could not memorize it and had to reference back to my book (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0873497171?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=goodknits-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0873497171\"><u>The Crochet Stitch Bible<\/u><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=goodknits-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0873497171\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding:0;\" \/>) after every row, sometimes even losing my place! It&#8217;s a 4 line repeat, yet my brain could not keep it in. But, boy is it <i>pretty<\/i>! <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5305923202\/\" title=\"harlequin-nw by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5125\/5305923202_e06ace291d.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"harlequin-nw\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I was just testing the waters, so I used some scraps of Vanna&#8217;s Choice I had leftover from the hats I made for Christmas, including my favorite colorway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003D7S46E?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=goodknits-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B003D7S46E\"><i>pea green<\/i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=goodknits-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B003D7S46E\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important; padding:0;\" \/>. I just crocheted until I ran out. I ended up with a rectangle that made a pretty decent sized neck-warmer. I attached some vintage clear acrylic buttons and voila! It took me about <s>an evening&#8217;s<\/s> TWO evening&#8217;s* worth of crocheting. I sure do love it when my kiddos actually sleep like normal humans and not like crazed nocturnal ones. It leaves me time to knit, crochet, and <i>blog<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">*I was re-reading my post and realized I did this over two days, not just one. Referring back to the book over and over takes up a lot of time!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5045\/5304172389_5feaee3d44.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"crochet: harlequin stitch\" style=\"border:1px solid black; background:white\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I would go on and on about how tired I was after preparing for the day and then the 3 restless nights I spent with my toddler, who forgot how to sleep, buuuut I don&#8217;t want to!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew finally let us all get some rest and so I&#8217;ve spent the past 2 days cleaning [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":[7,42],"tags":[228,236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"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=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1844,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}