{"id":220,"date":"2007-11-15T09:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twillpower.com\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-08-04T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T15:32:03","slug":"knitting-without-a-loom-gasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Knitting Without a Loom (gasp!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vox-enclosure vox-enclosure-right vox-enclosure-small vox-photo-enclosure\">\n<div class=\"vox-enclosure-inner\">\n<div class=\"vox-enclosure-list\">\n<div class=\"vox-enclosure-item vox-photo-asset vox-last\">\n<div class=\"vox-enclosure-image\"><a title=\"Dishcloth\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4110\/4954652523_0dccc44d5c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dishcloth\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4110\/4954652523_9eb8d0957f_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"vox-enclosure-meta\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. I suddenly had an urge to give knitting with needles a try, so I checked out a video from my local library and I started making the first project: a dishcloth. So far, I&#8217;ve learned to cast on, knit in the garter stitch, and increase by leaving a space. I have to admit, I enjoy using needles, especially because it gives a smaller gauge than the Knifty Knitter. I&#8217;ve played around with the idea of buying a smaller gauge loom, but we&#8217;ll see how it goes!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using size 8 needles and a skein of Sugar &#8216;n Spice cotton. There&#8217;s one huge difference I&#8217;ve noticed so far between loom and needle knitting. Because I&#8217;m making smaller stitches, this is taking a long time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s right. I suddenly had an urge to give knitting with needles a try, so I checked out a video from my local library and I started making the first project: a dishcloth. So far, I&#8217;ve learned to cast on, knit in the garter stitch, and increase by leaving a space. I have to admit, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[93],"tags":[201,160,241],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knifty-knitter","tag-dishcloth","tag-knitting-2","tag-needles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-3y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}