{"id":1160,"date":"2006-08-02T14:33:40","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T18:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/stunning-sock-yarn\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T14:33:40","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T18:33:40","slug":"stunning-sock-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/stunning-sock-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Sock Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received my sock yarn order today.  Wow.  I mean, <i>wow<\/i>.  Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous?  And you can&#8217;t tell from the picture, but it&#8217;s incredibly soft and squishy, too.<br \/>\n<center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/2006\/ksks_yarn.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"363\" alt=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The skein on the right is for my kit swap pal.  The skein on the left&#8230;well, see, here&#8217;s what happened:  I fell in love with the Nova Scotia colorway for my pal.  The place where I found it had a minimum order, which was a mere $6 more than the yarn cost.  I scoured the internet, looking for that particular colorway in that particular yarn anywhere else, with no luck.  So what could I do besides order a second skein of yarn?  (Don&#8217;t say order a $6 knitting accessory, because obviously I couldn&#8217;t do that when there was yummy sock yarn to be had!)  So the skein on the left?  It&#8217;s for me.  (Yes, I know, I need to do penance or something.  I have a sinful amount of sock yarn.  This will not stop me from acquiring more.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my sock yarn order today. Wow. I mean, wow. Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous? And you can&#8217;t tell from the picture, but it&#8217;s incredibly soft and squishy, too. The skein on the right is for my kit swap pal. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit-sock-kit-swap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","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=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}