{"id":164,"date":"2010-06-15T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2015-04-05T15:42:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:42:14","slug":"surprise-self-striping-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Self Striping Yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Trekking_sock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499505141780714850\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Trekking_sock-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m knitting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knittingdaily.com\/media\/p\/45226.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">these socks<\/a> in Trekking XXL, using a chart successfully for just about the first time ever. Well, successfully except that I saw-then-forgot a note about knitting two to change the starting point for the second repeat of the leg chart, so the bottom part of the leg design isn&#8217;t <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">exactly<\/span> centered on the top part.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the yarn a while ago (stash busting!), because I wanted some brown-ish socks, and the Trekking XXL in color 101 (now discontinued, that&#8217;s how long ago I bought it) is a pretty tan\/brown\/light brown\/golden tweedy color, with bluish and purplish hints. Or not.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s self striping. I may the only person who didn&#8217;t realize that Trekking is self striping, and I swear to God it didn&#8217;t look like it in the skein. But now I&#8217;ve got half a sock I&#8217;ve worked pretty darn hard on that, instead of an attractive brown, is a fairly hideous stripe.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Trekking_close.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5499510408735101266\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 168px;\" src=\"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Trekking_close-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not going to wear them. Going to give them away. Anybody need any socks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m knitting these socks in Trekking XXL, using a chart successfully for just about the first time ever. Well, successfully except that I saw-then-forgot a note about knitting two to change the starting point for the second repeat of the leg chart, so the bottom part of the leg design isn&#8217;t exactly centered on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}