{"id":1087,"date":"2012-02-08T22:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2012-02-08T22:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:08:07","slug":"wednesdays-wip-a-hat-myself-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2012\/02\/wednesdays-wip-a-hat-myself-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday’s WIP: A hat, myself and I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t always knit because I have something specific in mind.\u00a0 Sometimes I just knit because I need to.\u00a0 It helps me slow down, calm down and feel better.\u00a0 Those are the times when I will cast on a dozen times and rip everything because I just hate how the yarn looks in that pattern, or because I made way too many mistakes or just because I am in such a bad mood that my fingers are too and just won’t do what they know what to do so well.<\/p>\n

I find solace in my knitting, I find comfort in doing something that can be challenging or very monotonous, depending on what I do, and either way it is still knitting.\u00a0 It is yarn, needles and a knit or a purl stitch.\u00a0 It is something I can do while listening to a podcast or music so I can just get lost, or something I can do in complete silence to really think and ponder about the meaning of life, why laundry is never ending and dream about all the places I would like to visit or move to.<\/p>\n

Many knitters claim to be process or product knitters.\u00a0 I always try to find my place between the two but I have finally come to terms that I am neither.\u00a0 I sometimes knit to enjoy the process and I sometimes knit because I want a specific finished object.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t always knit because I have something specific in mind.\u00a0 Sometimes I just knit because I need to.\u00a0 It helps me slow down, calm down and feel better.\u00a0 Those are the times when I will cast on a dozen times and rip everything because I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wednesdays-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-hx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}