{"id":1034,"date":"2007-02-07T15:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/pomatomus-socks\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T15:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T19:20:21","slug":"pomatomus-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2007\/02\/pomatomus-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pomatomus Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably the last knitting blogger in the world to try knitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter05\/PATTpomatomus.html\">the pomatomus socks from Knitty<\/a>.  But, really, what else could this mostly blue (but with a tiny hint of teal) sock yarn become?<br \/>\n<center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pomatomus_begins.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2007\/pomatomus_begins.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"329\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m still trying to decide whether I love the striping effect, but since it&#8217;s relatively subtle I think it will work.  This is 1 1\/2 repeats of the 22 pattern rows (which is a really complicated way to say 33 rows), so halfway to the heel shaping.  It&#8217;s really not as hard as I&#8217;d expected, but it definitely requires a lot more concentration than my <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/crafts\/index.php?pid=25\">typical toe-up ribbed socks<\/a> do.  (Look, I&#8217;m actually even using stitch markers!)<\/p>\n<p>In other blue knitting news, I started swatching for the sweaters I&#8217;m planning to make.  I&#8217;m using my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitpicks.com\/needles\/Needles_Options.aspx\">KnitPick&#8217;s needle set<\/a>.  At first I started with size 7 needles, and I&#8217;m getting gauge, but I&#8217;m worried that when I wash and block the swatch it will expand, so I thought I&#8217;d switch to size 6 needles for the second half of the swatch&#8230;except.  One of the size 6 tips doesn&#8217;t actually stay on the cable, the hole that&#8217;s supposed to thread onto the cable is too big.  Luckily, KnitPick&#8217;s customer service is as fabulous as their new needles, and they&#8217;re sending me out replacement tips free of charge and no questions asked.  So, responsible swatching will have to wait a few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m probably the last knitting blogger in the world to try knitting the pomatomus socks from Knitty. But, really, what else could this mostly blue (but with a tiny hint of teal) sock yarn become? I&#8217;m still trying to decide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-project-spectrum-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}