{"id":76,"date":"2008-12-19T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-12-19T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T22:12:00","slug":"let-the-holidays-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":">Let the Holidays Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwd80KSABI\/AAAAAAAAAnU\/cosP755DOew\/s1600-h\/weaving.9.2008+004-Changed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwd80KSABI\/AAAAAAAAAnU\/cosP755DOew\/s400\/weaving.9.2008+004-Changed.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281629393629872146\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is a wall hanging I did about a decade ago.  It&#8217;s 24&#8243; x 36&#8243; and hangs in my red kitchen all year long.  I had never taken a photo of it until recently when someone asked to have some directions written for doing boundweave&#8230;.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwebUSKUkI\/AAAAAAAAAnc\/mf69XhFfuis\/s1600-h\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren+006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwebUSKUkI\/AAAAAAAAAnc\/mf69XhFfuis\/s200\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren+006.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281629917648933442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwebw6dd-I\/AAAAAAAAAnk\/8IrG6D1hxE4\/s1600-h\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwebw6dd-I\/AAAAAAAAAnk\/8IrG6D1hxE4\/s200\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281629925334153186\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Guess who finished the nasty Christmas stocking today?  That requires some celebrating!&#8230;.so I immediately grabbed the most luxurious yarn I could &#8212; &#8220;Sublime&#8221; cashmere\/merino\/silk &#8212; and began knitting the &#8220;Fetching&#8221; fingerless mittens by Cheryl Niamath from the summer &#8217;06 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEsummer06\/PATTfetching.html\">knitty.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Little progress made on any tapestries, but the most has been done on this one.  I&#8217;m ready to start working on Rob&#8217;s hand.  Challenging!<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwepZqdW3I\/AAAAAAAAAns\/R96eHeq5u8Q\/s1600-h\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren+007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwepZqdW3I\/AAAAAAAAAns\/R96eHeq5u8Q\/s320\/ann+norling+xmas+stocking+Lauren+007.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281630159611190130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time to make the cookies and the toffee and wrap some presents&#8230;.  it&#8217;s almost Hannukah, Christmas, Saturnalia, and, best of all, the <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Winter Solstice!<\/span>  Let&#8217;s all give a howl!<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwfYfg1PcI\/AAAAAAAAAn0\/Wcn-uwEscQY\/s1600-h\/Wolf-Moon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 199px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_wMHmSKIt2bg\/SUwfYfg1PcI\/AAAAAAAAAn0\/Wcn-uwEscQY\/s200\/Wolf-Moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281630968635276738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>>This is a wall hanging I did about a decade ago. It&#8217;s 24&#8243; x 36&#8243; and hangs in my red kitchen all year long. I had never taken a photo of it until recently when someone asked to have some directions written for doing boundweave&#8230;.Guess who finished the nasty Christmas stocking today? That requires some [&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":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}