{"id":452,"date":"2014-12-02T15:56:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T15:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.wordpress.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2018-05-22T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:52:36","slug":"gal-2014-giraffes-at-sunset-mittens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=452","title":{"rendered":"GAL 2014: Giraffes at Sunset Mittens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The time before Christmas isn&#8217;t exactly known to be free from stress and full of peace&#8230; But I try to squeeze in some me time anyway. Somehow, everythings is going to get finished on time&#8230; Including the blanket I&#8217;m knitting for my daddy. I just don&#8217;t know how, yet.<\/p>\n<p>But something is finished, my first project for the Gift-A-Long 2014:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/dsc01362.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-453\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/dsc01362.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"DSC01362\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/dsc01364.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-454\" src=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/12\/dsc01364.jpg?w=660\" alt=\"DSC01364\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/giraffes-at-sunset-mittens\" target=\"_blank\">Giraffes at Sunset Mittens<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/designers\/erica-mount\" target=\"_blank\">Erica Mount<\/a>, a wonderful pattern and an absolutely stunning FO, I love them! Her other patterns are just as gorgeous, check them out! There are dolphins, orchids and butterflies to see, among other beautiful things.<\/p>\n<p>I used different mystery sock yarns that I bought years ago for who knows what and never got to it. My hands are tiny, so I had to shorten them a bit. The original mittens are even more beautiful with more birds and the sun above the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>So, one project done and five more planned, one of them (the blanket mentioned above) has to be finished before Christmas&#8230; But Christmas is when all the presents are ready, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time before Christmas isn&#8217;t exactly known to be free from stress and full of peace&#8230; But I try to squeeze in some me time anyway. Somehow, everythings is going to get finished on time&#8230; Including the blanket I&#8217;m knitting for my daddy. I just don&#8217;t know how, yet. But something is finished, my first &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/?p=452\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GAL 2014: Giraffes at Sunset Mittens<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/452"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knittedinswitzerland.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}