{"id":1683,"date":"2011-08-01T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2011-07-21T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T14:23:57","slug":"a-christmas-stocking-for-jenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/a-christmas-stocking-for-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas stocking for Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Christmas was my neice Jenny’s first Christmas, so I thought she had better have a Christmas stocking with her name on it, even if she was a bit young at 3 months to really understand.<\/p>\n

Here is one side:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here the other:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The snowflake is a traditional Scandinavian pattern:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The reindeer came from a free Drops pattern, but I’m afraid I can’t remember which one:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And the letters and the tree came out of my head:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here it is full of presents (provided by her parents) on Christmas Eve after she had gone to bed.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The yarn is Cascade 220 which Annie and Mummy bought at Knitty City, Annie’s local yarn shop in New York, and I used 3mm needles. The yarn is an American worsted weight, which is a bit thicker than our DK weight, but thinner than our Aran weight, so the needles I used are very small for the thickness of yarn. This makes a nice firm fabric that will hold its shape hopefully through years of wear, and the presents wont poke out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Christmas was my neice Jenny’s first Christmas, so I thought she had better have a Christmas stocking with her name on it, even if she was a bit young at 3 months to really understand. Here is one side: And here the other: The snowflake is a traditional Scandinavian pattern: The reindeer came from […]<\/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":[42,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-projects-2010","category-stranded-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-r9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}