{"id":91,"date":"2006-01-20T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-20T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/knitting-olympics\/"},"modified":"2006-01-20T18:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-20T18:52:00","slug":"knitting-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/20\/knitting-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/\">Stephanie<\/a> has had the marvellous idea to host a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/olympics2006.html\">Knitting Olympics<\/a>, the idea being that you pick a project which will be a challenge to you, then cast on during the opening ceremony on February 10th and if you finish before the closing ceremony on February 26th then you get a shiny button for your blog.<\/p>\n<p>I think I am just about crackers enough to try this, and it is the closest I shall ever come to being an Olympic anything, so I will be giving it a try.<\/p>\n<p><u>My Olympic Project<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I will be knitting a patchwork jumper (sweater for those on the other side of the pond) a la Horst Schulz, which I will be designing as I go along. It is the first time I have knitted a garment of that size and complexity using this technique. I have knitted a camisole before, but that didn&#8217;t require much shaping, and other than that I have only done samples.<\/p>\n<p>The yarn I&#8217;m going to use has been sitting in my stash for a while. The background is cotton in different shades of blue, and the foreground is acrylic turquoise fluff \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/PatchworkYarn3.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\/PatchworkYarn3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I am off to sign up now, and contemplate just how mad this is &#8230; I think a few swatches will definitely be in order before the start date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie has had the marvellous idea to host a Knitting Olympics, the idea being that you pick a project which will be a challenge to you, then cast on during the opening ceremony on February 10th and if you finish before the closing ceremony on February 26th then you get a shiny button for your [&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-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-1t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","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=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}