{"id":123,"date":"2007-02-06T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/bullet-proof-socks\/"},"modified":"2007-02-06T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T07:48:00","slug":"bullet-proof-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/06\/bullet-proof-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet-proof socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While having a bit of a tidy up on my camera I discovered these pictures, and realised that although I finished these socks before Christmas I hadn&#8217;t actually blogged about them.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/GreenBlueAlpacaSocks1.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/320\/GreenBlueAlpacaSocks1.0.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The yarn is alpaca sock blend (60% alpaca, 20% merino, 20% nylon) from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpacaplus.com\/fibres.html\">Alpaca Plus<\/a> in Canada. <\/p>\n<p>I ordered 3 skeins (100g each), one in dark green, one navy and one brown. Unfortunately I discovered after making one sock in the brown that one skein would not be sufficient for two socks, so decided to make a pair with green legs and blue feet, and another pair using the left overs from the first pair, and the brown.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/GreenBlueAlpacaSocks3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block;cursor:hand;text-align:center;margin:0 auto 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/320\/GreenBlueAlpacaSocks3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The pattern on the leg is a kind of cable, over three stitches and 4 rows. On row one you cable the right most stitch over the centre stitch. Rows 2 and 4 are plain, then on row 3 you cable the centre stitch over the left most stitch. A cable in two stages. It doesn&#8217;t pull in as much as cabling two stitches over two would, and I like the look.<\/p>\n<p>This yarn is very robust and a lot more rustic than I had really been expecting, and the socks have come out practically bullet-proof. They are very good for cold days though and I am wearing this pair today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While having a bit of a tidy up on my camera I discovered these pictures, and realised that although I finished these socks before Christmas I hadn&#8217;t actually blogged about them. The yarn is alpaca sock blend (60% alpaca, 20% merino, 20% nylon) from Alpaca Plus in Canada. I ordered 3 skeins (100g each), one [&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-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-1Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","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=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}