{"id":10394,"date":"2021-03-31T08:55:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=10394"},"modified":"2021-04-03T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T16:26:58","slug":"learning-to-knit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2021\/03\/learning-to-knit\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to knit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looked so easy on the video. I thought I could do this. But it is clearly the work of a beginning knitter. My stitch count varies uncontrollably between 10 and 13 (supposed to be 11). I forgot the initial slip stitch until I was about 30 rows into it. It took me several tries before I settled on a natural position for my hands. I hold the yarn in my left hand and throw it over the needle, so it&#8217;s not an orthodox &#8220;continental&#8221; style. I brace the needle with the work anywhere from my armpit to my lap to my crotch. It&#8217;s only 140 rows, so eventually this part will be done and I&#8217;ll be able to resume with crochet and then Tunisian crochet. Another learning experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_2431.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_2431.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/img_2431-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looked so easy on the video. I thought I could do this. But it is clearly the work of a beginning knitter. My stitch count varies uncontrollably between 10 and 13 (supposed to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-10394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting","tag-ishrat-hat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10412,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10394\/revisions\/10412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}