{"id":249,"date":"2003-11-26T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T14:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/knitting-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T14:28:16","slug":"knitting-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/knitting-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knitted an entire Christmas gift (minus the bind-off edge) in the car last night&#8230;and since we started our trip well past sunset, I did it all in the dark!  It&#8217;s amazing that I didn&#8217;t drop or twist any stitches.  It didn&#8217;t hurt that there were lots of headlights all around us, so I could hold up my knitting and check it occasionally.  It was strange, though &#8211; I was working with a rather bright striping yarn, but it just looked gray in the headlights, so I didn&#8217;t get to see the color pattern it made until we got here.<\/p>\n<p>Six gifts done.  I brought an obscene amount of yarn with me (half of a very large duffel, plus a basket and a couple of tote bags) so that I can get to at least the half-way point of finished gifts before we get home&#8230;we&#8217;ll see!  :)<\/p>\n<p>(At least my shopping is completely done.  All the time I&#8217;d spend waiting in long lines at the mall can instead be spent knitting!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knitted an entire Christmas gift (minus the bind-off edge) in the car last night&#8230;and since we started our trip well past sunset, I did it all in the dark! It&#8217;s amazing that I didn&#8217;t drop or twist any stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}