{"id":1363,"date":"2012-12-29T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2012-12-29T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T22:36:21","slug":"knitters-whats-your-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/29\/knitters-whats-your-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitters:  What\u2019s Your Thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090113_2224_KnittersWha1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>I&#8217;ve started a sweater and I was perusing some knitting blogs when I noticed something cute about knitters.  They tend to gravitate to specific types of projects.  Me?  Sweaters are definitely my thing.  Oh, the first thing I ever knit was a scarf, same as most people, but my fondness for knitting really took off when I found a way to make sweaters I like.\n<\/p>\n<p>I have another friend whose thing seems to be hats, especially hats that show off especially fine or elegantly-colored yarn.  Sure, she spins and I think that&#8217;s part of what influences it, but she&#8217;s been into knitting hats for close on to ten years that I know of, and that was before she started spinning.\n<\/p>\n<p>I know of another knitter who loves making lace shawls, and still another whose obsession seems to be socks. (My own secondary obsession. Hey, I live in Northern New England!)\n<\/p>\n<p>But the common thread is that they&#8217;re all knitters and tend to have their knitting thing that they go back to and it makes them happy.\n<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve started a sweater and I was perusing some knitting blogs when I noticed something cute about knitters. They tend to gravitate to specific types of projects. Me? Sweaters are definitely my thing. Oh, the first thing I ever knit was a scarf, same as most people, but my fondness for knitting really took off &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/29\/knitters-whats-your-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Knitters:  What\u2019s Your Thing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}