{"id":110,"date":"2007-02-05T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2007-02-05T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T19:06:00","slug":"blue-felted-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Blue Felted Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/377923387\/\" title=\"larger pic\" target=_blank><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/151\/377923387_7c5f2c5afd_m.jpg\" alt=\"blue_felt4\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/377923387\/\">blue_felt4<\/a>  <br \/>  More in the series: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/tags\/bluehat1\/\" title=\"Flickr Photo Stream\" target=_blank>wishiwerebaking<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>This is the first experiment in felting. It&#8217;s about 10 inches across, and I&#8217;ve blocked it to retain the points that came from doing regular increases (e.g., every 10 sts, knit a row, then every 11 sts, etc.). I&#8217;ve yet to finish it, &#8217;cause I need to take it to the craft shop and find some nice satin ribbon or something to trim it out with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually way fuzzier than I expected, and you can still see the stitches underneath. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s supposed to go this way, but &#8230; oh well. I tried brushing it while wet, scrubbing it against itself, and all manner of things until my hands were rather raw. What worked best was just throwing it in the washer on hot &#038; letting it go.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blue_felt4 More in the series: wishiwerebaking. This is the first experiment in felting. It&#8217;s about 10 inches across, and I&#8217;ve blocked it to retain the points that came from doing regular increases (e.g., every 10 sts, knit a row, then every 11 sts, etc.). I&#8217;ve yet to finish it, &#8217;cause I need to take it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}