{"id":121,"date":"2007-02-12T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2007-02-12T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T20:01:00","slug":"new-author-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"New Author &#8230; Maybe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>One of my fellow knitters-in-church wrote me to say that he&#8217;d like to have someplace to write about his knitting things:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI would like to try a herringbone stitch hat, and I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/wishiwerebaking.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/hats-new-and-old.html\" target=_blank>that Mongolian thing<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t quite understand the stitch. In a couple of weeks can you show me, and possibly make a <a href=\"http:\/\/wishiwerebaking.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/waiting-for-yarn.html\" target=_blank>pattern<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/wishiwerebaking.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/knit-things.html\" target=_blank>that greenish one<\/a> you showed me when you were working on it. I like that, minus the frilly bottom. See you soon, and that Mongolian hat thingy is pretty cool. If you want me to post some pictures of things I have made, I could get pictures for them, it would look cool on your blog, having a kid do these projects. I finished one of those slippers I was working on over the weekend.   Adios amigos, or what ever that is in spanish.    =)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve invited him to join our little society here (he&#8217;s not yet into baking, but there&#8217;s still time).  We&#8217;ll see if he ends up doing the posts himself, or if we end up doing them for him, but I&#8217;m thinking he&#8217;s savvy enough to be able to manage.  If so, welcome!  He hasn&#8217;t chosen a screen name yet, so &#8230; we&#8217;ll wait and see how this works out.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>He&#8217;s currently reading two books by Elizabeth Zimmerman (<u>Knitting Without Tears<\/u> and <u>Knitters Almanac<\/u>), knits without looking what he&#8217;s doing, and has finally taken to heart Elizabeth&#8217;s admonition to Knit Loosely!  He still knits &#8220;English Style&#8221; but he&#8217;ll work on that at some point, too, as Elizabeth suggests.<\/p>\n<p>* I added the links to the pieces he was talking about<\/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>One of my fellow knitters-in-church wrote me to say that he&#8217;d like to have someplace to write about his knitting things: I would like to try a herringbone stitch hat, and I&#8217;ve seen that Mongolian thing, but I don&#8217;t quite understand the stitch. In a couple of weeks can you show me, and possibly make [&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-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}