{"id":252,"date":"2003-11-21T08:04:10","date_gmt":"2003-11-21T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/who-knew\/"},"modified":"2003-11-21T08:04:10","modified_gmt":"2003-11-21T12:04:10","slug":"who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, the general rule of thumb for yarn amounts (and time spent knitting) is: back of sweater = 1\/3, front(s) of sweater = 1\/3, sleeves = 1\/3.  I guess it didn&#8217;t really hit me that a hood is probably another 1\/3.  (Yes, that adds up to more than 1.) Not that I&#8217;m running out of yarn, it just surprised me, that&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and intarsia, while it came out fairly well and is marginally fun to do, is not something I&#8217;d contemplate for a larger project (like something me-sized) at any point in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll stop now, before I give something away.  One of these days I&#8217;ll get back to knitting things I can show pictures of.  Right this minute, I have 5 out of 22 gifts done.  Two more are almost done, and two others are about half done.  The rest of what&#8217;s left are teeny-tiny things&#8230;well, sort of.  I&#8217;m not panicked.  Yet.  Ask me again in a week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, the general rule of thumb for yarn amounts (and time spent knitting) is: back of sweater = 1\/3, front(s) of sweater = 1\/3, sleeves = 1\/3. I guess it didn&#8217;t really hit me that a hood is probably another<\/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-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","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=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}