{"id":1178,"date":"2012-04-19T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T06:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2012-04-28T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T12:57:17","slug":"wednesdays-wip-lots-of-things-are-going-on-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2012\/04\/wednesdays-wip-lots-of-things-are-going-on-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday&#8217;s WIP: Lots of things are going on actually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some new yarn.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Alize Diva Batik by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/7092324301\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5236\/7092324301_fdb99e5145_z.jpg\" alt=\"Alize Diva Batik\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a nice change after all the red.\u00a0 I would probably knit blue only if I let myself.<\/p>\n<p>And cast on another one of these<br \/>\n<a title=\"IMG_9608 by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/7087003595\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5111\/7087003595_2ff4ae5bca_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9608\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new yarn is fingering weight while the original is in sport weight but I got gauge so I am knitting it anyway, the fabric is coming out drapier which feels great too.<\/p>\n<p>I have already started grading the pattern. My first attempt at grading a garment, because it is about time. I am terrified but I am pretty certain I will find a way without tearing all my hair out.<\/p>\n<p>I am still working on the blanket<br \/>\n<a title=\"Uncoordinated Blanket Progress by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/6940582742\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5200\/6940582742_fed78affc3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Uncoordinated Blanket Progress\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIt is nice autopilot knitting, all garter stitch, but because of the colors changing I still don&#8217;t feel like poking my eyes out with a sharp object, which is really dangerous for knitters because we have lots of sharp objects lying around.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1179\" title=\"6774275722_fb70cde534\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534-300x69.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534-150x34.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/6774275722_fb70cde534-400x92.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have also signed up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimimimakes.com\/2012\/02\/knitting-and-crochet-blog-week-2012-is.html\">3rd Annual Knitting and Crochet Blog Week<\/a>, to be held between the 23rd-29th of April 2012, organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimimimakes.com\/\">Eskimimimakes<\/a>.\u00a0 Basically, everyday has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimimimakes.com\/2012\/04\/knitting-and-crochet-blog-week-2012.html\">different topic<\/a> which you should blog about, they all seem like great fun.\u00a0 There are prizes too.\u00a0 But I am just doing it for the fun of it and to stretch my blogging muscles a bit. Check it out, it looks like a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what are you guys upto?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some new yarn. It is a nice change after all the red.\u00a0 I would probably knit blue only if I let myself. And cast on another one of these The new yarn is fingering weight while the original is in sport weight but I&hellip;<\/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":[177,174],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wednesdays-wip","tag-princess-peplums","tag-uncoordinated-blanket"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-j0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","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=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}