{"id":509,"date":"2002-09-06T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T13:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/09\/singing-needles\/"},"modified":"2002-09-06T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T13:17:12","slug":"singing-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2002\/09\/singing-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break from the very warm, heavy afghan I&#8217;m knitting to go back to my sweater, which is all finished except the sleeves.  It&#8217;s not hot enough out for the A\/C lately, but it&#8217;s too warm to be sitting with 3\/4 of a thick afghan on your lap!  After using 13mm needles and two strands of yarn, using one strand of yarn on 4.5mm needles is like switching from little-kid crayons to big-kid crayons.  And it&#8217;s faster, too!  I&#8217;m done with one cuff and partway through the second just while watching the first half of the football game last night.  I finally decided to do the cuffs flared, like the pattern described, since I won&#8217;t be wearing the sweater often enough to be annoyed by the excess fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break from the very warm, heavy afghan I&#8217;m knitting to go back to my sweater, which is all finished except the sleeves. It&#8217;s not hot enough out for the A\/C lately, but it&#8217;s too warm to be<\/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-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}