{"id":121,"date":"2006-12-21T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/happy-christmas-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T22:16:00","slug":"happy-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/21\/happy-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well it has certainly been a busy December so far, and I am definitely looking forward to a nice rest over Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>My Christmas knitting present plans turned out to be a little ambitious. I did manage to finish a pair of cashmere socks for my mum:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/751779\/P1011089.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1873\/999\/320\/748385\/P1011089.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The orange-ness of our dining table makes them look a slightly odd colour. I&#8217;ll try and get her to take a photo of them when she is wearing them.<\/p>\n<p>And a hat for my dad:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/944236\/P1011096.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/1873\/999\/320\/976165\/P1011096.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> This was a bit of an experiment after having read the article on Brioche stitch in the round by Meg Swansen in the latest Vogue Knitting. Once I got into the swing of it it was good fun, and a nice quick knit since the yarn is chunky.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you all have a great Christmas, and I will see you in the New Year. I&#8217;m off to wind a skein of cashmere sock yarn into a ball to start on my Mum&#8217;s next pair of socks. Maybe if I start next year&#8217;s christmas knitting now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it has certainly been a busy December so far, and I am definitely looking forward to a nice rest over Christmas. My Christmas knitting present plans turned out to be a little ambitious. I did manage to finish a pair of cashmere socks for my mum: The orange-ness of our dining table makes them [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}