{"id":1889,"date":"2011-12-19T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2011-12-15T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T21:54:29","slug":"a-knitted-breast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/a-knitted-breast\/","title":{"rendered":"A knitted breast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October I knitted a rather unconventionally coloured breast for my friend Meg to use when she teaches antenatal groups about breast feeding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1890\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/a-knitted-breast\/knittedbreast\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2592,1552\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HTC Desire&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1318343456&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.31&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;67&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"KnittedBreast\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast-1024x613.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1890\" title=\"KnittedBreast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/KnittedBreast-1024x613.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She very kindly took its photo as I had managed to post it to her before I remembered to photograph it.<\/p>\n<p>I used 4ply weight acrylic machine knitting yarn, and 3.25mm needles. The pattern I used is <a title=\"Knitted breast pattern\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lcgb.org\/shop_knittedbreastpattern.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but I made it in the round so I didn&#8217;t have to do a seam, and also did a provisional cast on so that I could easily pick the stitches up to work the back. I think if I made another one I would alter the rate of decreases on the back as the fabric did pucker a bit, but overall it was good fun and will hopefully be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October I knitted a rather unconventionally coloured breast for my friend Meg to use when she teaches antenatal groups about breast feeding. She very kindly took its photo as I had managed to post it to her before I remembered to photograph it. I used 4ply weight acrylic machine knitting yarn, and 3.25mm [&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":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-projects-2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-ut","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","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=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}