{"id":253,"date":"2012-07-19T22:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-08-08T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T22:59:18","slug":"not-too-fussy-sweater-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2012\/07\/19\/not-too-fussy-sweater-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Too Fussy Sweater (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"not<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nPattern:<\/span>\u00a0 Wondrous Woven Cables, from <\/span>Knitter’s, Fall 2000<\/span>
\n
\nYarns:<\/span>\u00a0 Plymouth Yarn Mushishi — 3.5 skeins (1,600 – 1,700 yds)
\nMethod:\u00a0<\/span> Hand knitting
\nCompleted:<\/span>\u00a0 July 19, 2012.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A new sweater was required — others are all wearing out!\u00a0 The request was for a “not too fussy” sweater — a black stockinette crew neck would probably have fit the bill nicely, but I would have clawed my eyes out with boredom trying to knit something so boring.\u00a0 We settled on this pattern (“Wondrous Woven Cables”) and the self-striping Mushishi yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"back\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nBack<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"side<\/a>\"side\"<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/td>\n		Side view — you can see that the broad stripes of front and back do not line up.\u00a0 But, the patterning is coordinated enough that this doesn’t seem too distracting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"sleeve<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nSleeve… this is an object lesson for why you should block and then<\/span> seam.\u00a0 The seam is not stretchy and is stuck at the length of the sleeve when it was first knit (before soaking).\u00a0 On the other hand, the sleeves are now too long, so the seam helps to keep it in line with where it was meant to be…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"shoulder\"<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDetail of the shoulder join.\u00a0 Worked out reasonably smoothly.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Pattern:\u00a0 Wondrous Woven Cables, from Knitter’s, Fall 2000 Yarns:\u00a0 Plymouth Yarn Mushishi — 3.5 skeins (1,600 – 1,700 yds) Method:\u00a0 Hand knitting Completed:\u00a0 July 19, 2012. A new sweater was required — others are all wearing out!\u00a0 The request<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_4517-thmb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}