{"id":2185,"date":"2011-06-18T11:58:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T11:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2011-06-18T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T11:58:48","slug":"giotto-in-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Giotto in Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2186\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/110-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is Giotto by Anna Bell, which I first saw knitted by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnharlot.com\" >Stephanie<\/a> ages ago. I was enchanted by them then and about a year later have finally tracked down the pattern and I&#8217;m on my way!<\/p>\n<p>These are going to be quite lacey socks &#8211; so with that in mind I didn&#8217;t want to use a yarn with too much going on. This is <em>Lana Grossa Soya<\/em> (yes, you read that right!) in lime green (otherwise known as colour number 6). It&#8217;s a sensible mixture of 60% wool, 20% polyamide and 20% soya (viscose). It knits up really nicely and should wear well. The colour hits you between the eyes and is seriously cool.<\/p>\n<p>I am so thrilled by the picot hem. I haven&#8217;t done one before and I really thought it was going to be tricky. Let me tell you&#8230;.picot hems are absolutely do-able and at the same time so clever. This sock just looks beautifully finished before I&#8217;ve even started it. I&#8217;m really tickled pink and as it&#8217;s a grotty rainy afternoon I&#8217;m off now to watch another episode of Foyle&#8217;s War and make a little sock progress.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Giotto by Anna Bell, which I first saw knitted by Stephanie ages ago. I was enchanted by them then and about a year later have finally tracked down the pattern and I&#8217;m on my way! These are going to be quite lacey socks &#8211; so with that in mind I didn&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-zf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}