{"id":1320,"date":"2013-09-01T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/elektra-jacket\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:52:22","slug":"elektra-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/01\/elektra-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Elektra Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I showed you some yarn I’d wound<\/a> on my lovely new swift, but I didn’t wind it just on a whim. I’m making a knitted jacket called Elektra<\/a>, designed by Twisted Sisters. The pattern shows four different yarns, but our local knit shop, Sin City Knit Shop<\/a>, is having us do it in three, which I prefer. I’ve finished the first large section, which will become the back, and I’m currently working on the first of the two sleeves. The sleeves are mostly narrow (2-row) stripes in the off-white and brownish-black. Here’s that first section, though it isn’t spread out completely because I have it saved on cables that aren’t quite long enough to allow for that.<\/p>\n

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At least you can see the colors! \ud83d\ude42 This project will take some time, I think, but I hope to get a lot of use from it when it’s finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I showed you some yarn I’d wound on my lovely new swift, but I didn’t wind it just on a whim. I’m making a knitted jacket called Elektra, designed by Twisted Sisters. The pattern shows four different yarns, but our local knit shop, Sin City Knit Shop, is having us do it in three, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[302],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-garments","8":"tag-knitting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_0359.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-li","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/18\/finished-jacket\/","url_meta":{"origin":1320,"position":0},"title":"Finished Jacket","author":"Sandy","date":"October 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You may recall this post (with the misspelled jacket name). 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