{"id":89,"date":"2009-01-26T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2009-01-26T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T18:44:00","slug":"doodling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":">Doodling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SX4EwYcPRoI\/AAAAAAAAAtk\/1RcxX51rqM8\/s1600-h\/carriage+drivers+gloves+shetland+museum.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 131px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SX4EwYcPRoI\/AAAAAAAAAtk\/1RcxX51rqM8\/s200\/carriage+drivers+gloves+shetland+museum.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295675441075406466\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Just some things I&#8217;ve been puttering with, having fun, when I don&#8217;t face the more serious tasks at hand (like tapestry!)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>This is the original &#8216;Carriage Driver&#8217;s glove&#8217; from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shetland-museum.org.uk\/\">Shetland Museum<\/a> photo archives, which is worth all the words in the directions that <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">don&#8217;t<\/span> tell you why you are turning the hand inside out to cast-on along the original cast-on edge to begin knitting the other direction!  Turns out they are gloves with fingerless mitts attached to give an  extra layer of warmth, or to give a little extra protection from horse reins&#8230;or something.  Anyway, I could not figure out why I was casting on to the wrist edge of my glove and knitting the other direction.  I&#8217;ve decided I don&#8217;t want double layer gloves anyway, so I&#8217;ve just gone on to the fingers!  One done!<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SX4Ht-6EvbI\/AAAAAAAAAts\/Y0k6DOLDufk\/s1600-h\/jan+09+weaving.knitting+006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SX4Ht-6EvbI\/AAAAAAAAAts\/Y0k6DOLDufk\/s200\/jan+09+weaving.knitting+006.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295678698396368306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This little pearl bracelet was the outcome of my January local guild meeting.  It&#8217;s a technique called &#8216;right angle weave&#8217; and very quick to do with large pearls.  It used most of one strand of pearls and was done in less than two hours!  I wore it the next day!  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Total<\/span> instant gratification!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>Just some things I&#8217;ve been puttering with, having fun, when I don&#8217;t face the more serious tasks at hand (like tapestry!)&#8230;. This is the original &#8216;Carriage Driver&#8217;s glove&#8217; from the Shetland Museum photo archives, which is worth all the words in the directions that don&#8217;t tell you why you are turning the hand inside out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}