{"id":264,"date":"2003-11-04T08:04:31","date_gmt":"2003-11-04T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/afghan-a-long\/"},"modified":"2003-11-04T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2003-11-04T12:04:31","slug":"afghan-a-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/11\/afghan-a-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan-A-Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittingpark.com\/Blog.html\">Cindy<\/a> started up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittingpark.com\/SAL.html\">sampler afghan knit-along<\/a>&#8230;and, gosh, I have a <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/crafts\/index.shtml?aranAfghan\">sampler afghan<\/a> already started, which has become very stalled, so I joined in.  I think knit-alongs are great &#8211; it&#8217;s like a support group for procrastinating knitters like me.  And this is the first one I&#8217;ve seen where I didn&#8217;t have to start a new pattern or buy more yarn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/furry_green_scarf.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"300\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\">The goal is one square a week.  I think I can fit that in along with all of the Christmas knitting and the one-skein distractions&#8230;yeah, about those&#8230;  See, I succumbed to the temptation of glittery silver and green fuzz the last time I was at the yarn shop.  Big needles and a couple hours later, and I have a soft fuzzy scarf!  Now that&#8217;s instant gratification. <\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah, anyway, I cast on for another block Sunday.  Cables are fun!  I think all of my blocks are turning out a smidge big (despite having swatched) so the cables are a little softer than they should probably be, but it&#8217;s an afghan &#8211; it&#8217;s supposed to be soft!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittingpark.com\/SAL.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/sampler_button.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Join the Sampler Afghan-a-long.  You know you want to!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy started up a sampler afghan knit-along&#8230;and, gosh, I have a sampler afghan already started, which has become very stalled, so I joined in. I think knit-alongs are great &#8211; it&#8217;s like a support group for procrastinating knitters like me.<\/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-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}