{"id":937,"date":"2014-08-30T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T01:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=937"},"modified":"2014-08-30T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T01:48:51","slug":"trying-out-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=937","title":{"rendered":"Trying Out Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been knitting for something like 12 years now. \u00a0Somewhere along the line I started planning out some patterns on my own as well as adapting others (e.g., the Little Sailor Girl saga from a couple years ago). \u00a0Last year, my friend La, who runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dizzyblondestudios.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dizzy Blonde Studios<\/a>, asked if I&#8217;d be interested in designing something for the Mean Girls&#8217; Yarn Club. \u00a0I got the yarn from her at Stitches West in February and got to work.<\/p>\n<p>I knew I wanted to do socks, and La liked that because most of the patterns that have been designed for the club so far have been shawls and mitts. \u00a0I knew that the theme of the package I was designing for was Single White Female. \u00a0I saw the movie so long ago, the only thing I could really remember was that the mean girl killed a guy with a stiletto heel. \u00a0Ah, the seed of an idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Given that the yarn La gave me was high contrast, I decided to do something with slipped stitches. \u00a0So, I knew I wanted a single stream of slipped stitches, stiletto-like going down the foot. \u00a0After playing around with a couple of ideas, I settled on this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/14900208810\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3905\/14900208810_7de0134cb9_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is currently only available to Mean Girls&#8217; Yarn Club members, but will be available for purchase in about 6 months. \u00a0You can find more information at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/stiletto\">http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/stiletto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been knitting for something like 12 years now. \u00a0Somewhere along the line I started planning out some patterns on my own as well as adapting others (e.g., the Little Sailor Girl saga from a couple years ago). \u00a0Last year, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=937\">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":[383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937"}],"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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}