{"id":1221,"date":"2012-04-26T19:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T16:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T09:02:59","slug":"a-knitter-for-all-seasons-3kcbwday4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/2012\/04\/a-knitter-for-all-seasons-3kcbwday4\/","title":{"rendered":"A Knitter for all seasons &#8211; 3KCBWDAY4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of the third annual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimimimakes.com\/2012\/03\/knitting-and-crochet-blog-week-2012.html\">Knitting and Crochet Blogging Week<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0When I signed up for this blogging weet I assumed that the blogging would be much easier than it is. \u00a0I am not sure if the topics are deeper than I had thought or I am just having a hard time articulating my thoughts these days. \u00a0Anyways. Here goes nothing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I live in Kuwait. \u00a0It is a hot country most of the year. \u00a0It gets cold for about a month and sometimes it gets really really cold during that time. \u00a0I started out crocheting amigurumi and bags when I first started so they are season irrelevant. \u00a0I started in December I think. \u00a0And then went on to crochet more bags and stuff for quite a while. \u00a0I crocheted a wrap for my daughter that was so bad I ripped out and used the yarn for a bag. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t understand gauge then and it came out so\u00a0misshapen\u00a0it looked quite sad on her.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I knit and crochet all year round. \u00a0I just make different things and I use different materials. \u00a0It is actually a great opportunity to try things you wouldn&#8217;t normally do. \u00a0Summer makes me want to crochet or knit beach bags, sun hats and toys. \u00a0The colder months make me want to knit shawls, cardigans and little mittens. \u00a0Of course I want to knit socks all the time \ud83d\ude42 but hey you can wear them all year round too. \u00a0I also knit baby blankets any time of the year too. \u00a0Cotton for summer babies and wool blends, acrylic or superwash (because they need to be machine washable) in the winter.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Carry Me Away by ChocolateMintsInaJar, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chocolatemintsinajar\/4752047797\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4119\/4752047797_033f959fa6.jpg\" alt=\"Carry Me Away\" width=\"500\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Edited to add: The bag above is my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/carry-me-away-market-bag\">Carry Me Away Market Bag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is part of the third annual\u00a0Knitting and Crochet Blogging Week \u00a0When I signed up for this blogging weet I assumed that the blogging would be much easier than it is. \u00a0I am not sure if the topics are deeper than I had thought or 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":[1],"tags":[180,173],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3kcbw","tag-3kcbwday4"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p10SDt-jH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","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=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chocolatemintsinajar.com\/craft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}