{"id":573,"date":"2014-09-20T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.wordpress.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2014-09-20T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T10:26:12","slug":"jumper-season-whoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Jumper Season &#8211; WHOOP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, knitting isn&#8217;t just for autumn and winter, but I really do struggle to knit big bulky things all year round. I love to <em>wear<\/em> big bulky things though, and this Autumn has got me really excited because it was only in Spring that I taught myself to knit jumpers. And by then it was kind of too warm to wear them.<\/p>\n<p>I bought myself some wool \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/2andes1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/2andes1.jpg\" alt=\"2Andes1\" width=\"584\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s the same lovely stuff as my last jumpers, but breaking out of the earthy colour mold &#8211; just as a little refresher, you understand \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>However, I also had some left over from this little chap:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/owl3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-575\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/owl3.jpg\" alt=\"Owl3\" width=\"584\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a>which I figured would make a rather nice jumper for my littlest. I&#8217;ve come to the end of the ball and have had to order a bit more (I know &#8211; shucks &#8211; buying wool&#8230; what a nightmare! \ud83d\ude09 ) I&#8217;ve chosen a top-down, seamless yoke method which, given the small size, started out on DPNs and progressed to circular needles when there were enough stitches.<\/p>\n<p>So, here it is in progress (excuse the dodgy phone pics):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-576\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted1.jpg\" alt=\"Ted1\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>Starting out on double pointed needles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-577\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted2.jpg\" alt=\"Ted2\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>Bringing in some stripes and separating the arms stitches out and onto waste yarn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted3.jpg\" alt=\"Ted3\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>Another little flash of pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-579\" src=\"http:\/\/aliceinknittingland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/ted4.jpg\" alt=\"Ted4\" width=\"584\" height=\"584\" \/><\/a>Trying not to stamp my feet that I didn&#8217;t have quite enough wool \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be back, though &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, knitting isn&#8217;t just for autumn and winter, but I really do struggle to knit big bulky things all year round. I love to wear big bulky things though, and this Autumn has got me really excited because it was only in Spring that I taught myself to knit jumpers. And by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[48,136,220,234,248,255,269,282,384,429,450,474,480],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alice-in-knittingland","tag-crafts","tag-handmade","tag-homemade","tag-jumper","tag-knit","tag-knitting","tag-knittingland","tag-seamless-yoke","tag-sweater","tag-top-down-knitting","tag-wool","tag-yarn"],"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\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliceinknittingland.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}