{"id":943,"date":"2014-10-04T14:35:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T21:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=943"},"modified":"2014-10-04T14:35:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T21:35:17","slug":"commute-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Commute knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New commute socks by Elizabeth Borchardt, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zardra\/15254046728\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5597\/15254046728_cd11cdff0f_n.jpg\" alt=\"New commute socks\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>After 2 years, I am working again. \u00a0It&#8217;s a part-time job in Berkeley, which necessitates commuting via BART. \u00a0Fremont to Downtown Berkeley is about 50 mins, so I have plenty of time to do things like knit or read. \u00a0One of the neat things about my new job is that it&#8217;s only a few blocks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakesandpurls.com\/\">Cakes &amp; Purls<\/a>. \u00a0Since I got my first paycheck this week, I decided to treat myself with a new skein of sock yarn for my BART knitting.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I&#8217;d knit my socks on circular needles so that I don&#8217;t rick losing a needle on BART, but I&#8217;ve been really enjoying knitting with my set of Knitter&#8217;s Pride Karbonz DPNs. \u00a0The yarn I picked out yesterday is Blue Ridge Yarns Footprints in Wild Cherry. \u00a0It&#8217;s 2 skeins of yarn &#8212; one 300 yd skein of variegated colors and a 100 yd skein in a matching solid color. \u00a0The main skein\u00a0of Wild Cherry is a blend of really pretty deep jewel tones, and the smaller contrast skein is a dark purple that I&#8217;ll be using for the cast-on, heels, and toes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 2 years, I am working again. \u00a0It&#8217;s a part-time job in Berkeley, which necessitates commuting via BART. \u00a0Fremont to Downtown Berkeley is about 50 mins, so I have plenty of time to do things like knit or read. \u00a0One &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=943\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}