{"id":108,"date":"2005-11-14T23:38:08","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T23:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2005-11-14T23:38:08","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T23:38:08","slug":"new_knits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/new_knits\/","title":{"rendered":"New Knits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before my curtain frustrations get the best of me, I thought I’d share a few knitted projects that I’ve recently finshed up. My friend Kristina had been admiring the poncho<\/a> that I knitted for myself earlier this year and asked me to make her one. It’s a really easy pattern to do, but I was only so-so pleased with the way hers turned out:
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\"Kristina's<\/center>
\nThe main thing that disappointed me about it was the neck. The last one I did I used size 9 needles for the neck, only because when I started it, it was the closest needle that I had to what the pattern called for (size 13). I had been in a hurry to start, and in the end, I think that was a better move anyway. The new poncho’s collar is floppy and won’t hold shape. I just think it could have been a bit better, had I used different needles.
\nWhat I am happy with, however, is this:
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\"Dimond<\/center>
\nI used the Dimond Lace scarf pattern<\/a> that Laural at Thimble<\/a> wrote (thank you!!). I made a few minor changes to the pattern, but nothing major. I hadn’t done any work with knitting in a lace pattern before, but I ended up being really impressed with how easy and quickly the scarf came together. I’m giving this one to my mother-in-law for Christmas, so I hope she likes as much as I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before my curtain frustrations get the best of me, I thought I’d share a few knitted projects that I’ve recently finshed up. My friend Kristina had been admiring the poncho that I knitted for myself earlier this year and asked me to make her one. It’s a really easy pattern to do, but I was …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}