{"id":379,"date":"2017-01-20T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T14:28:38","slug":"el-senor-snarky-door-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/el-senor-snarky-door-snake\/","title":{"rendered":"El Senor Snarky Door Snake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reworking the pattern, I finally finished the first of the door excluders for our foyer.  This pattern is using size 4 DPNs (double-pointed needles), and remnant yarn for most of the project.  The snake head is crafted in Red Heart &#8220;Frosty Green&#8221; color &#8211; all other colors are random, to keep the pattern unique per project.  <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Girlnovember&#039;s El Senor Snarky Door Snake\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Completed-Door-Snake-1-20Jan2017cr.jpg 1238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Girlnovember&#8217;s El Senor Snarky Door Snake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The snake contains about 25 pounds of tiny river rocks, which were used at one point as part of our wedding reception centerpieces.  We&#8217;ve had bags of these tiny stones for years, so I&#8217;m glad I finally came up with a use for them!  I used an old, clean pair of pantyhose to hold the stones, tying off the &#8220;panty&#8221; end keep the stones in place.  The tail end of the door snake has a draw string closure, so I can remove the stones if I want to wash the outer knitted piece.  As you can imagine, he&#8217;s quite heavy, but he stays in place and fits snugly against the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reworking the pattern, I finally finished the first of the door excluders for our foyer. This pattern is using size 4 DPNs (double-pointed needles), and remnant yarn for most of the project. The snake head is crafted in Red Heart &#8220;Frosty Green&#8221; color &#8211; all other colors are random, to keep the pattern unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}