{"id":53,"date":"2010-11-01T13:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2010-11-08T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T21:04:46","slug":"october-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"October Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some of the things I worked on in October.\u00c2\u00a0 Some are finished, many are still in progress.<\/p>\n

My Blue Leaves shawl<\/a>, still in progress but the end is now in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a few more repeats…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A cable knitted sleeve for my Kindle.\u00c2\u00a0 I used some stash yarn and made up a pattern for this and am loving how it turned out.\u00c2\u00a0 This is much better than the plain leather-like thing that used to store it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A cozy for my bottled beverage of choice.\u00c2\u00a0 It was necessary…my fingers are cold already without my beverage adding to the problem.\u00c2\u00a0 I call it my beer sock.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The striped hat<\/a> for a fabulous lady.\u00c2\u00a0 Turns out that she’s really happy with the final version and even wore it to the office last week!\u00c2\u00a0 She sent me a photo and I couldn’t be happier with how well it looks on her.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that I’ve figured out the pattern, I’m toying around with the idea of making another one for my new Etsy shop.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The beginnings of some toe-up socks for holiday gifting.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ll have to rip out and start over in the smaller size, since my gauge is turning out a sock that is 1″ bigger than intended for the size I was working.\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, but I have a mental block when it comes to using anything smaller than a US 2 needle.\u00c2\u00a0 No problem, I hadn’t gotten very far anyway and it was going very quickly.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’ll still make my deadline.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A test swatch for a mohawk hat for a friend.\u00c2\u00a0 The body and earflaps will be worked in the royal purple shown here, with black I-cord ties and mohawk to finish it off.\u00c2\u00a0 This is going to be a really fun project!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And this is the reason I don’t have more of these pieces finished.\u00c2\u00a0 My Halloween project.\u00c2\u00a0 I got a wild hair…literally…and thought this knit\/crochet wig up at the last minute for a party we attended on Saturday evening.\u00c2\u00a0 It sparked lots of fun conversation, which was one of the goals.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is going into the costume stash to use again.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you’re wondering, yes it was heavy, but it was worth it.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a blast making it and wearing it!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I also spent quite a chunk of October working on setting up an Etsy shop for some of my earlier finished work.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the research for setting everything up just right, to taking acceptable photos of everything (the weather has turned to rain now, so good light is at a premium), to setting up the shop and listings and going live, it was a lot of hours behind the scenes.\u00c2\u00a0 So now you can check out my new shop<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 Right now I’m showing a line of crochet scarves, but I have plans to add more items as things go along.<\/p>\n

Even though I didn’t finish as many projects as I would have liked, I’m still pretty happy with October’s productivity considering all the one-time distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some of the things I worked on in October.\u00c2\u00a0 Some are finished, many are still in progress. My Blue Leaves shawl, still in progress but the end is now in sight.\u00c2\u00a0 Just a few more repeats… A cable … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,14,9,12,11,15,13],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-cozy","tag-hat","tag-knitting-2","tag-scarf","tag-shawl","tag-socks","tag-wool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.tangledstrands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}