{"id":1157,"date":"2009-08-02T05:26:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-08-02T05:26:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T12:26:56","slug":"little-sprout-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2009\/08\/02\/little-sprout-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Sprout hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It always feels like an accomplished sort of weekend when you publish something &#8211; not a poem this time, but a knitting pattern.  <em>Five<\/em> of my coworkers have babies now (well, four do and one is working on it); the oldest is just over a year and I&#8217;ve clearly been slacking in the baby knitting department. Having just finished my Primrose Path sleeveless sweater (now blocking for the second time, in hopes I can get it a little smaller as it stretched out to become not only loose but see-through the first time. grr) this seemed like a good time to embark on a blitz of knitting quick and tiny things.<\/p>\n<p>The first hat was going to be the Umbilical Cord Hat from Deb Stoller&#8217;s first <em>Stitch &#8216;N Bitch<\/em> book (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=umbilical%20hat&#038;w=all&#038;s=int\">these<\/a>), but first I had to change the number of stitches cast on to account for the yarn I wanted to use, and then I had to change the decrease pattern since I had fewer rows per inch &#8230; and then I was working on the i-cord at the top when the green color spoke up and insisted it wanted a leaf rather than a top-knot. With so many changes in such a basic hat, I decided it probably constituted a new pattern, wrote it up and published it as a free Ravelry download. I&#8217;ve called it the Little Sprout hat.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m halfway done a lace hat in a rich fuschia color, for a year-old baby girl whose parents seem to like extremely girly clothes for her. Then I have to make something for a boy and a girl who are each a little over a month old, then something for the one still in utero. I haven&#8217;t decided whether all of these will be hats or if I&#8217;ll branch out into eensy socks &#8211; I have lots of washable sock yarn leftovers, but I&#8217;m never quite sure about wool for babies.  Still, a lot of it is not itchy stuff. I also have leftover mercerized cotton from a multicolor baby blanket, and I&#8217;m thinking maybe I&#8217;ll make a sort of jester hat for one of them &#8211; square floppy corners, maybe short little tassels.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sprout1.jpg\" alt=\"Little Sprout hat\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sprout2.jpg\" alt=\"Little Sprout hat on Snoopy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It always feels like an accomplished sort of weekend when you publish something &#8211; not a poem this time, but a knitting pattern. Five of my coworkers have babies now (well, four do and one is working on it); the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/2009\/08\/02\/little-sprout-hat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riseagain.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}