{"id":1428,"date":"2011-10-08T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/revisiting-my-youth\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T20:16:20","slug":"revisiting-my-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/10\/08\/revisiting-my-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting my youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">When I was <b>much<\/b>&nbsp;younger, I did a bit of knitting. I really enjoyed it, but I didn&#8217;t pursue it very far, since I was young and pretty broke most of the time. \ud83d\ude09 Lately, though, I&#8217;ve been seeing more and more knitting online, and it&#8217;s been very tempting to begin again. I resisted at first, but I&#8217;ve given in. <g><\/g><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">What spurred this change of heart? My sister gave me a fun scarf \u2014 all ruffles \u2014 in shades of grey and white, in August and I loved it; it will look wonderful with my red coat this winter. I found some similar yarn and made myself another, this time in royal blue, turquoise, and a sort of greyish olive. I finished it yesterday, and it was such fun to make that I&#8217;m going to make a shawl next! Here&#8217;s the scarf:<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Flounce-scarf.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Flounce-scarf-300x267.jpg?resize=320%2C285\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s about 38&#8243; long and <b>very<\/b>&nbsp;fluffy! It should be lots of fun to wear. \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was much&nbsp;younger, I did a bit of knitting. I really enjoyed it, but I didn&#8217;t pursue it very far, since I was young and pretty broke most of the time. \ud83d\ude09 Lately, though, I&#8217;ve been seeing more and more knitting online, and it&#8217;s been very tempting to begin again. I resisted at first, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":706,"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":[300],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-knitting","8":"tag-knitting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Flounce-scarf.jpg?fit=1024%2C912&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-n2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1394,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/03\/a-couple-of-updates-part-1-knitting\/","url_meta":{"origin":1428,"position":0},"title":"A couple of updates \u2014 part 1: knitting","author":"Sandy","date":"June 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been working on a couple of things, so I'm going to split them up into separate posts to keep things easier. ;) First of all, I'm still playing around with a Craftsy class on knitting lace sweaters. 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