{"id":1549,"date":"2017-02-06T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2017-02-06T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:00:50","slug":"my-other-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"My Other Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got two beautiful skeins of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveknitting.com\/the-yarn-collective-pembroke-worsted?a_aid=7d8ae305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Yarn Collective&#8217;s Pembroke Worsted<\/a> in Smoky Quartz and Copper Agate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gorgeous stuff. I mean gorgeous. Beautiful shifting colour, delightfully squishy, and lovely to knit with.<\/p>\n<p>So, what to make with it?<\/p>\n<p>A pair of Valentine&#8217;s boot socks for my husband. And, since Valentine&#8217;s Day was fast approaching, they needed LOTS of hearts.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1558\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/my-other-half3.jpg\" alt=\"my-other-half3\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and in the spirit of different but similar halves of a whole, I thought they&#8217;d be rather beautiful mirroring each other: mismatched but matching.<\/p>\n<p>So here they are in all their glory:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1562\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/my-other-half7.jpg\" alt=\"my-other-half7\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, as ever, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loveknitting.com\/my-other-half-socks-knitting-pattern-by-alice-neal?a_aid=7d8ae305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">if you fancy a crack at them yourself, you can find the pattern here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1559\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/my-other-half4.jpg\" alt=\"my-other-half4\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1560\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/my-other-half5.jpg\" alt=\"my-other-half5\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and because he&#8217;s a Wool-Widower and such an obliging sock model, I let him keep them early \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1561\" src=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/my-other-half6.jpg\" alt=\"my-other-half6\" width=\"1411\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy knitting! &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got two beautiful skeins of The Yarn Collective&#8217;s Pembroke Worsted in Smoky Quartz and Copper Agate. It&#8217;s gorgeous stuff. I mean gorgeous. Beautiful shifting colour, delightfully squishy, and lovely to knit with. So, what to make with it? A pair of Valentine&#8217;s boot socks for my husband. And, since Valentine&#8217;s Day was fast approaching, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,33],"tags":[48,51,90,136,148,176,202,229,241,269,278,279,284,297,308,313,344,347,412,445,460,474],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-patterns","tag-alice-in-knittingland","tag-alice-neal","tag-boot-socks","tag-crafts","tag-design","tag-fair-isle","tag-gifts-for-him","tag-hearts","tag-inspiration","tag-knitting","tag-knitting-inspiration","tag-knitting-pattern","tag-knitwear-design","tag-love-knitting","tag-man-presents","tag-mismatched","tag-pattern","tag-pembroke-worsted","tag-socks","tag-the-yarn-collective","tag-valentines","tag-wool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}