{"id":1653,"date":"2012-07-07T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2012-07-07T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T14:09:48","slug":"starting-christmas-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2012\/07\/starting-christmas-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Christmas Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be uber-organised at the moment. I&#8217;m knitting Christmas presents already! At least it gives me something to do at weekends whilst it&#8217;s raining all day and I&#8217;m listening to comedy shows on the radio. Since I don&#8217;t want to spoil any surprises, I can&#8217;t really say what I&#8217;m making but at least I can show off the yarn I&#8217;m using.<\/p>\n<p>The first is a wonderful soft double knitting yarn in a lovely shade of blue-green. I&#8217;ve completed the first part of the gift and I&#8217;m now onto the second part.<\/p>\n<p>The second yarn is a multi-coloured chunky yarn that I have yet to use.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this time, I&#8217;ll actually remember to take photos of the final objects before they are sent but I must remember <strong>not<\/strong> to post the photos on Ravelry until after Christmas!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1653 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2012\/07\/starting-christmas-early\/20120707-150306-jpg\/'><img width=\"111\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306-111x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306-759x1024.jpg 759w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306-519x700.jpg 519w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150306.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2012\/07\/starting-christmas-early\/20120707-150317-jpg\/'><img width=\"133\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317-133x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317-133x150.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317-914x1024.jpg 914w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317-625x700.jpg 625w, https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/20120707-150317.jpg 928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 133px) 100vw, 133px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be uber-organised at the moment. I&#8217;m knitting Christmas presents already! At least it gives me something to do at weekends whilst it&#8217;s raining all day and I&#8217;m listening to comedy shows on the radio. Since I don&#8217;t want to spoil any surprises, I can&#8217;t really say what I&#8217;m making but at least I can show off the yarn I&#8217;m using. The first is a wonderful soft double knitting yarn in a lovely shade of blue-green. I&#8217;ve completed the first part of the gift and I&#8217;m now onto the second part. The second yarn is a multi-coloured chunky&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}