{"id":1374,"date":"2013-01-09T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:46:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T15:46:34","slug":"how-to-know-a-geek-knitter-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/09\/how-to-know-a-geek-knitter-loves-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know a Geek Knitter Loves You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.ca\/blog\/archives\/2013\/01\/08\/cosmic_latte_it_is_not.html\">Yarn Harlot<\/a> is knitting a <a href=\"http:\/\/wittylittleknitter.com\/chapter-12\/\">Doctor scarf<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/090113_2230_HowtoKnowaG1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>If you are not a knitter, but you are a Doctor Who fan, you might want one of the scarves of your very own.  You might even think, &#8220;Hey, I wouldn&#8217;t <strong>think<\/strong> of asking someone to knit me the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Doctor vest,<sup>1<\/sup> but a simple scarf?  Surely (s)he wouldn&#8217;t mind!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not that the scarf would be <em>hard<\/em> to knit.  It&#8217;s just 12 feet of garter stitch.\n<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the point.  <strong>Twelve feet of garter stitch<\/strong>.  Friends, unless you&#8217;re a knitter, you have no idea in the world how tedious that can get.  I mean, you can talk about the idiot knitting of a sweater all you want to, but <strong>twelve feet of garter stitch<\/strong>\u2026  My word.  Yes, I&#8217;ve done it, though it was years ago, and it turned me off learning any more complex knitting for about fifteen years.\n<\/p>\n<p>What brings this to mind?\n<\/p>\n<p>The sweater I am knitting for my son.  I asked him what he wanted in a sweater.  He wants a plain color \u2013red.  He doesn&#8217;t want any fancy patterning in the stitches, but a simple knitted hem and raglan sleeves.  Thank goodness for sleeve and neckline shaping (I&#8217;m making a Seamless Raglan Sweater from Elizabeth Zimmerman&#8217;s <em>Knitting Without Tears<\/em>) or it would be almost as bad as that Doctor scarf.\n<\/p>\n<p>If you have ever been knitted a Fourth Doctor scarf, <strong>never<\/strong> doubt that you are loved by that knitter!\n<\/p>\n<p>___________________________________\n<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Reality check:  This would be a pleasantly challenging but not too insane knit, especially if you could figure out way to do it in the round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yarn Harlot is knitting a Doctor scarf. If you are not a knitter, but you are a Doctor Who fan, you might want one of the scarves of your very own. You might even think, &#8220;Hey, I wouldn&#8217;t think of asking someone to knit me the 7th Doctor vest,1 but a simple scarf? Surely &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/09\/how-to-know-a-geek-knitter-loves-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Know a Geek Knitter Loves You&#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":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-rant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","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=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}