{"id":265,"date":"2009-12-17T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-12-17T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:19:14","slug":"catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas knitting is now in full swing at Chez LaLa.\u00a0 I was super late getting started (I began on Monday) because on other knitting commitments such as baby showers:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Damian\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2746\/4192858114_f9ae5443c0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One for Damian (I made him two hats, but he was a preemie, so only one fits him now).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Bevans hat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2616\/4138646255_f2d22530da.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two hats and a pair of booties for Bevan (He&#8217;ll enter the world tonight if all goes according to plan).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Justins hat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2498\/4138646743_6a3bdcfb76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a hat for Justin (who is 6 months old, but his mom didn&#8217;t have any hats that fit him anymore).\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually really happy with the finishing of this hat.\u00a0 First, it had been on my needles for well over a year.\u00a0 Second, it was made out of my hand-dyed yarn.\u00a0 Third,\u00a0 momma&#8217;s reaction when she got it&#8230;..she was very very happy.\u00a0 So happy, I&#8217;ve had students telling me how happy she was.\u00a0 That made it all worth while.<\/p>\n<p>Other commitments that I had to finish up before the Christmas knitting were a scarf for <a href=\"http:\/\/orphan.org\/index.php?id=40\">the Red Scarf Project<\/a> and a swap object for The Loopy Ewe Swap.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to blog about my swap object after she gets it.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the Loopy Swap, I got an awesome package from Lucytoo!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Loopy Swap\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4048\/4177650216_404f0a139e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m having a hard time resisting the fiber and the yarn.\u00a0 And we all know how much a love cowls.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh, I guess I&#8217;d better go knit on some presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas knitting is now in full swing at Chez LaLa.\u00a0 I was super late getting started (I began on Monday) because on other knitting commitments such as baby showers: One for Damian (I made him two hats, but he was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/catch-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}