{"id":200,"date":"2010-02-11T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stitch.hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/?p=200"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:27:46","slug":"sock_knitting_as_sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/sock_knitting_as_sport\/","title":{"rendered":"sock knitting as sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI easily get all wrapped up in group projects.  Every October I get all riled up to knit only socks for Socktoberfest and then this past November for Vestvember I knit my first actual wearable garment.  There&#8217;s just something fun about knowing that a group of people with a shared hobby are working on the same things you are. So, beginning tomorrow night, I&#8217;m going to try knit a full pair of socks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/ravelympics-2010\">Ravelympics 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hiptopiecesquares\/4349826166\/\" title=\"decisions, decisions by Hip To Piece Squares, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4006\/4349826166_d8c490fb2c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"325\" alt=\"decisions, decisions\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I want a challenge, but I don&#8217;t want to knit something so tough that I won&#8217;t be able to finish.  I&#8217;ve pretty much decided that I&#8217;m going to knit a something toe-up, which is relatively new skill to me.  I had pulled out these five yarns hoping that one of them would inspire me to pick a pattern, but I&#8217;m still torn.  I&#8217;m thinking I&#8217;d like to use the green (Dream in Color Smooshy, in Happy Forest) to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEfall08\/PATTinterlockingleaves.html\">Interlocking Leaves<\/a> socks.  However, I could still persuaded to pick something different.  I just can&#8217;t make up my mind.<\/p>\n<p>\nI can start casting on tomorrow night as the Olympic opening ceremonies begin.  I have this feeling that I&#8217;ll still be having trouble deciding what to make.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I easily get all wrapped up in group projects. Every October I get all riled up to knit only socks for Socktoberfest and then this past November for Vestvember I knit my first actual wearable garment. There&#8217;s just something fun about knowing that a group of people with a shared hobby are working on the <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/sock_knitting_as_sport\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","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=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiptopiecesquares.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}