{"id":248,"date":"2011-02-23T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1a346a77-1372-4435-ac7b-9c22ae77dcc9"},"modified":"2011-02-23T18:24:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:24:00","slug":"knitting-in-shalom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Knitting in Shalom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3429.jpg?a=44\"><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I finished my first sweater in a long time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/shalom-cardigan\" target=\"\">Shalom<\/a> by Meghan McFarlane. I was inspired to do the sweater after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soulemama.com\/soulemama\/2011\/01\/the-rosa.html\" target=\"\">Soule Mama<\/a>. Finding good patterns has always been an issue. By good I mean easy, fun and attractive. This one fit the bill. I added sleeves and took out the shaping so it is more similar to Soule Mama&#8217;s version. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/images.quickblogcast.com\/7\/2\/6\/0\/8\/191317-180627\/GEDC3430.jpg?a=76\"><\/p>\n<p>I love, love, love it. Handknits are perfect for this time of year. My goal is to finish the sleeves on Avril&#8217;s sweater and make one for Two before our first camping trip the middle of April. I may even have time to get something for Effie in if I pick the right pattern. <\/p>\n<p>The flu is working its way through our family so now we are still bunkered down. At least I have some quiet knitting to do so I don&#8217;t feel like I am wasting the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I finished my first sweater in a long time Shalom by Meghan McFarlane. I was inspired to do the sweater after reading Soule Mama. Finding good patterns has always been an issue. By good I mean easy, fun and attractive. This one fit the bill. I added sleeves and took out the shaping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}