{"id":749,"date":"2009-02-07T12:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-02-07T12:56:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T18:56:11","slug":"its-been-too-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/its-been-too-long\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been too long …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since the last post, I believe it’s been cold nearly every day.\u00a0 There were no tornadoes in Wisconsin this January, thankfully.\u00a0 I’ve learned to knit.<\/p>\n

I never knew just how fun knitting could be.\u00a0 I actually knit most (if not all) of the presents I gave away for christmas this year.\u00a0 I knit an\u00a0 iPod pouch for my sister and brother-in-law.\u00a0 I knit shower soap holders that can double as washcloths for my sister and mother-in-law.\u00a0 I knit some dishcloths for my mother-in-law.\u00a0 And I used some yarn to decorate the outside of a candleholder that contained a flameless candle for my sister to use in her dorm room.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year, I took a break and didn’t knit anything for a while.\u00a0 My next project was the Not-So-Bulky Golden Compass Hood<\/a> by Diane Serviss that can be found here: http:\/\/earthlyfae.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/winter-hangs-on-just-like-jilted-love.html<\/a>.\u00a0 I used a different kind of yarn, but it did the trick.<\/p>\n

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What I didn’t like about the hood was that it was very airy,and for a Wisconsin winter, that just won’t work.\u00a0 I also thought the boucl\u00e9 yarn was just not right for this design.\u00a0 So I left its improvement on the back burner while I worked on my next project: The Garter Stitch Loop-Through Scarf by Marci Richardson in the book 101 Designer One-Skein Wonders<\/a>.\u00a0 I loved the way this turned out, despite my beginner’s mistakes.\u00a0 It was thick, warm, stretchy, and pretty in a simple way.\"Scarf\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So when I finished, I knew that was how I wanted to modify the Golden Compass Hood.\u00a0 Now, I am working on a modification of the hood that incorporates the same yarn as the scarf, the same size needles as the scarf, and the same decorative edging as the scarf.\u00a0 I am also including a cord or ribbon around the bottom edge to make it tie a little more like a child’s bonnet.\u00a0 I can’t wait to see how it turns out.\u00a0 Now I only hope I finish before the cold weather is gone.\u00a0 But if I don’t, there’s always next winter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the last post, I believe it’s been cold nearly every day.\u00a0 There were no tornadoes in Wisconsin this January, thankfully.\u00a0 I’ve learned to knit. I never knew just how fun knitting could be.\u00a0 I actually knit most (if not all) of the presents I gave away for christmas this year.\u00a0 I knit an\u00a0 iPod […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-c5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}