{"id":829,"date":"2011-03-29T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=829"},"modified":"2011-03-28T13:34:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:34:33","slug":"all-baby-things-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"All Baby Things, All the Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/5480467227\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Baby Sweater\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5100\/5480467227_725171e1bb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>After finishing the baby blanket for my sister, I had to put my energy towards knitting baby things for a couple of friends who were due within a couple months of each other. \u00a0My friend Katy is really into forests and fairies, so I wanted to make her a baby sweater that invoked those ideas. \u00a0I settled on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemoonfiberarts.com\/newmoon\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=7_253&amp;products_id=2612\">Baby Yours sweater<\/a> by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and published by Blue Moon Fiber Arts. \u00a0It was a relatively easy knit, mostly moss stitch with a cable up the middle of the back and front. \u00a0The only thing that tripped me up was that the centimeter measurements were listed before the inch measurements, so I just need to make sure I read the correct instructions as I went (or really, just measure the sweater in centimeters instead of inches, which is mostly what I did).<\/p>\n<p>Picking out buttons was slightly difficult because I wanted something that went really well with the pattern. \u00a0I picked up some ivy leaf buttons and some acorns. \u00a0I tested out how well each of the button designs would fit through the buttonholes I made. \u00a0The ivy leaves had three pointy bits, which made it difficult to get through the holes. \u00a0At first, the acorns didn&#8217;t seem to fit, but with a little coaxing I got them through. \u00a0They looked so cute and really matched the feel of the sweater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing the baby blanket for my sister, I had to put my energy towards knitting baby things for a couple of friends who were due within a couple months of each other. \u00a0My friend Katy is really into forests &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=829\">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":[361,256,362,38,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829"}],"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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}