{"id":73,"date":"2015-08-16T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/?p=73"},"modified":"2015-08-16T21:01:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T21:01:46","slug":"on-the-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/2015\/08\/16\/on-the-needles\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0tagline for this blog claims I will make &#8220;occasional forays into knitting&#8221;. \u00a0That might end up a dramatic underestimation&#8230;my identity as a knitter is as important to me as my identity as a social psychologist. \u00a0I chronicle <em>all<\/em> my knitting projects elsewhere (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ravelry<\/a>: kme124) but sometimes I want to show off in more than one venue. \u00a0Today&#8217;s project was finished mere days before the recipient leaves for an extended trip to Southeast Asia&#8230;where she&#8217;ll no doubt be happy that she has a nice pair of wool socks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/08\/Skipperdoodles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-74\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/08\/Skipperdoodles.jpg\" alt=\"Skipperdoodles\" width=\"259\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although I knit many\u00a0things, knitting socks is a favorite. \u00a0My muse, Janelle (<a href=\"http:\/\/tt820.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/stretching.html\" target=\"_blank\">TT 820<\/a>), got me started and I couldn&#8217;t stop. \u00a0Socks are a fairly perfect project: small (so one can easily take a project to dentist appointments, the department of motor vehicles, <em>FACULTY MEETINGS<\/em>&#8230;)! \u00a0The next pair will be for my surrogate daughter, Stephie, using this lovely confection:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/08\/Supersocke.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-75\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/348\/2015\/08\/Supersocke.jpg\" alt=\"Supersocke\" width=\"296\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0tagline for this blog claims I will make &#8220;occasional forays into knitting&#8221;. \u00a0That might end up a dramatic underestimation&#8230;my identity as a knitter is as important to me as my identity as a social psychologist. \u00a0I chronicle all my knitting projects elsewhere (Ravelry: kme124) but sometimes I want to show off in more than one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/keyssell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}