{"id":439,"date":"2017-08-29T18:46:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-08-29T18:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T22:46:21","slug":"the-great-slippers-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/29\/the-great-slippers-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Slippers Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been attempting to make a pair of slippers using cotton yarn. The problem is, while I&#8217;ve made these in acrylic previously with great results; the cotton yarn stretches too much and makes the slippers enormous.  I&#8217;ve gone from US 6 to US 4 DPNs and am seeing some success now.  The below is my latest attempt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_440\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Slippers.jpg\" alt=\"2nd Slipper - girlnovember.com\" width=\"295\" height=\"315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Slippers.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Slippers-281x300.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2nd Slipper Attempt &#8211; girlnovember.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now to wind a fresh yarn cake in Violet Splash and see what happens when using the yarn I really want to use for this project. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been attempting to make a pair of slippers using cotton yarn. The problem is, while I&#8217;ve made these in acrylic previously with great results; the cotton yarn stretches too much and makes the slippers enormous. I&#8217;ve gone from US 6 to US 4 DPNs and am seeing some success now. The below is my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafting","category-creative","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlnovember.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}