{"id":2803,"date":"2016-09-12T15:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2016-09-12T15:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T22:50:56","slug":"finished-cardigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/12\/finished-cardigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished cardigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"img_1793\"<\/a>I’ve been concentrating on finishing the cardigan I’ve been working on, as I want to be able to get a lot of use out of it this fall and winter. I put the last stitches in last night, and I’m very\u00a0happy with the result. \ud83d\ude42 Because it’s a Custom Fit<\/a> pattern, it really does fit well; the sleeves are the length that fits me, and the sweater is tailored to my own shape. Now I’m going to try to get back to the free-motion work\u00a0on my current quilt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been concentrating on finishing the cardigan I’ve been working on, as I want to be able to get a lot of use out of it this fall and winter. I put the last stitches in last night, and I’m very\u00a0happy with the result. \ud83d\ude42 Because it’s a Custom Fit pattern, it really does fit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[302,300],"tags":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-2803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-garments","7":"category-knitting","8":"tag-knitting","9":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-Jd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1386,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/another-cardigan\/","url_meta":{"origin":2803,"position":0},"title":"Another cardigan","author":"Sandy","date":"July 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've mentioned before that I've taken a couple of knitting classes from Craftsy, and I've just finished another one. 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