{"id":84,"date":"2008-10-03T19:23:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:22:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:22:52","slug":"put-a-spork-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/put-a-spork-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Put A Spork In It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8217;Cause it&#8217;s done, yo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Malvina's Embossed Leaves by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2910448363\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3182\/2910448363_c379b9e733.jpg\" alt=\"Malvina's Embossed Leaves\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have finished another pair of socks! In about a month, which isn&#8217;t too bad lately. These are Malvina&#8217;s birthday socks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pattern: <\/strong>Embossed Leaves Socks by Mona Schmidt from Interweave&#8217;s Favorite Socks<br \/>\n<strong>Yarn:<\/strong> Cherry Tree Hill in an uber TANGERINE<br \/>\n<strong>Mods:<\/strong> various. I hate how the star toe feels (though aesthetically it works better on this pattern) and I love grafting, so I put in a regular French toe, and a regular stockinette heel, and a regular long-tail cast-on.<br \/>\nOh, and I started the second sock a half-repeat down so the pattern would mirror-image itself. *is a matchy-matchy nerd*<\/p>\n<p>I would up liking the yarn after all.\u00a0 It works up nicely and let&#8217;s face it, the color is great. I am not sure how it is going to wear, and I am not sure how Malvina is going to feel when I tell her to handwash these socks, but whatevs. I still need to give &#8217;em a soak, but I broke the sink plug the other day so it will have to wait. Uncle Evan is coming over tomorrow morning to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Malvina your socks are done.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/put-a-spork-in-it\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8217;Cause it&#8217;s done, yo. Yes, I have finished another pair of socks! In about a month, which isn&#8217;t too bad lately. These are Malvina&#8217;s birthday socks. Pattern: Embossed Leaves Socks by Mona Schmidt from Interweave&#8217;s Favorite Socks Yarn: Cherry Tree Hill in an uber TANGERINE Mods: various. I hate how the star toe feels (though &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/put-a-spork-in-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Put A Spork In It&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,17],"tags":[49,269,264],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-knitting","category-socks","tag-fos","tag-interweave-designs","tag-malvina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}