{"id":650,"date":"2009-07-07T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=650"},"modified":"2009-07-07T16:23:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:23:55","slug":"rivendell-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Rivendell socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/3696197825\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Rivendell socks\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3419\/3696197825_017282da95_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>The Rivendell socks progress steadily.\u00a0 The pattern looks nice in the semi-solid color.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in this photo, you can&#8217;t really see the sparkliness from the silver thread.\u00a0 The pattern has been easy to follow so far; the charts reall help with that.\u00a0 I was thrown slightly for a loop when working the cluster stitches, but it&#8217;s an interesting technique.<\/p>\n<p>While the gauge (@ 7.5 sts\/in) is a little looser than I would normally knit socks, it does seem to help the knitting go quickly when each round it only 63 stitches long.<\/p>\n<p>The ribbing seems really stretchy, so I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll have to worry too much about fit issues.\u00a0 Although, I don&#8217;t believe there are any plans for anyone to wear the socks.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/sockmuseum.com\/\">Sock Museum website<\/a> does not actually say what will happen to the socks after Sock Summit 2009. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivendell socks progress steadily.\u00a0 The pattern looks nice in the semi-solid color.\u00a0 Unfortunately, in this photo, you can&#8217;t really see the sparkliness from the silver thread.\u00a0 The pattern has been easy to follow so far; the charts reall help &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=650\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[269,267,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}