{"id":1726,"date":"2018-07-02T17:45:59","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2018-07-02T17:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T17:45:59","slug":"is-that-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Is that progress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been that time again. You know, the time where I realize that I won&#8217;t learn to sew if I never do it.<\/p>\n<p>During our vacation in Sweden, I bought a magazine with knitting, crochet and sewing patterns. And there was this pattern for a simple shirt, and I understood the instructions in Swedish, so I thought it must be relatively easy to make.<\/p>\n<p>Off I went to the store, bought some fabric and bias tape and they said I&#8217;d need a twin needle.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern said the shirt should be done in less than two hours. Well, let&#8217;s make that two days for me, but here it is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_3763.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1725\" height=\"2828\" width=\"2240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_3763.jpg 2240w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_3763-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_3763-768x970.jpg 768w, https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/img_3763-811x1024.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2240px) 100vw, 2240px\" \/>Don&#8217;t look too closely, please &#8211; you might realize it&#8217;s probably the worst shirt in the world. Hubby sewed on the bias tape because I had no idea what to do. We didn&#8217;t ever use that twin needle, either.<\/p>\n<p>But while it may be the worst shirt in the world and just a rectangle, it&#8217;s definitely not the worst rectangle in the world. My pillows and the bag were much worse. And let&#8217;s not even talk about the only thing I made that wasn&#8217;t just a rectangle &#8211; that so called nightgown!<\/p>\n<p>So, I think I&#8217;ll make another one and ask in the store if they can help with that bias tape. I&#8217;m still not sure that counts as progress, though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been that time again. You know, the time where I realize that I won&#8217;t learn to sew if I never do it. During our vacation in Sweden, I bought a magazine with knitting, crochet and sewing patterns. And there was this pattern for a simple shirt, and I understood the instructions in Swedish, so &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=1726\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is that progress?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}