{"id":93,"date":"2006-01-28T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/more-olympic-knitting\/"},"modified":"2006-01-28T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T22:05:00","slug":"more-olympic-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/28\/more-olympic-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"More Olympic Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catseye.typepad.com\/\">CatsEye<\/a> has made a team GB Olympic Knitting button in two sizes! I am really spoiled for choice now.<\/p>\n<p>I finally sat down with the calculator this afternoon and did a swatch for the patchwork jumper:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1873\/999\/1600\/PatchworkSwatch4.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\/PatchworkSwatch4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very pleased with it, I think the needle size is right and I like the colours together, and I think it is about the right size. I am planning to wash it before I get too carried away since I want to make sure it wont shrink in the wash. I am feeling very virtuous now, since I think that is pretty much all my training done and I still have time to spare before the start date! I still haven&#8217;t totally worked out how I am going to increase for the sleeves yet though, or worked out the joining of the sleeves to the body, I am hoping that these little details will either come to me in a dream or will make themselves obvious once the knitting has started &#8211; one can hope!<\/p>\n<p>The finishing up of other bits and pieces is going quite well too. The car went in for its service on Friday so I had about 3 hours sitting around in the garage knitting. I will take some photos soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CatsEye has made a team GB Olympic Knitting button in two sizes! I am really spoiled for choice now. I finally sat down with the calculator this afternoon and did a swatch for the patchwork jumper: I&#8217;m very pleased with it, I think the needle size is right and I like the colours together, and [&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-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-1v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","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=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}