{"id":871,"date":"2021-04-06T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=871"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:12:03","slug":"gift-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Gift Knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So when you have knitworthy relatives who have big life events happening (for example, getting engaged), and you also have a tradition of knitting afghans to gift to knitworthy relatives on the occasion of their marriages&#8230; you have a very dry blogging spell, because you don&#8217;t want to post spoilery images and ruin the surprise.  When it&#8217;s TWO afghans, it takes even longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then I reasoned, that while they follow my Instagram, they don&#8217;t really pay attention to this site.  So you can have a few close-ups, as a treat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-1024x1022.jpg\" alt=\"A blanket square of a mitered cross knit in a variegated yarn with purple, pink, orange, yellow, and navy stripes.  The cross is bordered by a log cabin frame in a cream colored yarn.\" class=\"wp-image-890\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-2048x2045.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0065-edited-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gift one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A partially-completed, deeply textured afghan knit in a bulky cream yarn.  Squishy cables bracket stitches forming large diamonds with seed stitch centers.  Two skeins of yarn are lying next to the work.\" class=\"wp-image-891\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-1024x1022.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-768x767.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-1536x1534.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-2048x2045.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/DSC_0045-edited-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Gift two.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gift One is finished and will be presented to its recipients soon, and Gift Two is in progress.  Once they are completed and presented I will write them up in fuller detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So when you have knitworthy relatives who have big life events happening (for example, getting engaged), and you also have a tradition of knitting afghans to gift to knitworthy relatives on the occasion of their marriages&#8230; you have a very dry blogging spell, because you don&#8217;t want to post spoilery images and ruin the surprise. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/?p=871\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gift Knitting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","tag-update","tag-wip"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahtilden.net\/knit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}