{"id":293,"date":"2025-04-18T21:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2025-04-18T21:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T03:31:36","slug":"on-my-needles-this-snowy-april-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"On my needles this snowy April evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"294\" src=\"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So you remember those two sweaters I made a while back, last year maybe? Well I had one skein of each left over and  I am using them to make a tube scarf. I  picked a scarf because I couldn\u2019t knit a great big thing with only two skeins, and  I wanted to practice more double stranded knitting. I chose a tube scarf because <br>I have always wanted to try my hand at a one ever since I saw a Fair Isle version at a local yarn store. I\u2019m still a little nervous about making a whole Fair Isle version of something. There is something about knowing which colors to pick that seems more daunting than it should be. Black and white photos for contrast help for the win, but more on that later. In the mean time, these two colors work well together, so it was perfect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still have 1\/2-2\/3 of the skeins to go, so I will either need to get one more of each to finish it as a scarf, or sew the ends together and make a cowl. We\u2019ll see how I feel about it once I\u2019m closer to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you remember those two sweaters I made a while back, last year maybe? Well I had one skein of each left over and I am using them to make a tube scarf. I picked a scarf because I couldn\u2019t knit a great big thing with only two skeins, and I wanted to practice more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On my needles this snowy April evening&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixfeetcrazy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}