{"id":1197,"date":"2018-05-01T11:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:07:42","slug":"mmmay-and-so-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=1197","title":{"rendered":"#MMMay&#8230; and so it begins."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thing makers on the internet do when May rolls around. They wear garments that they&#8217;ve made themselves and take photos to post on social media every day of the month to celebrate their craft. I&#8217;ve tried on occasion to participate, but I&#8217;ve decided to jump in with both feet this year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will post a photo a day on Instagram wearing at least one item of me-made clothing. When I feel the urge, I will follow up said photos with a post here talking in more detail about the garment(s) I&#8217;m wearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay. Let&#8217;s do this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/E1C45867-E090-4A07-B201-FE1DE211D592_medium2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1198\" src=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/E1C45867-E090-4A07-B201-FE1DE211D592_medium2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/E1C45867-E090-4A07-B201-FE1DE211D592_medium2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/E1C45867-E090-4A07-B201-FE1DE211D592_medium2.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Item 1: a slapped-together tank based roughly on my ripped-off draft of a <a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=990\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swing Tank<\/a>, with only the neckband finished because I only had a third of a yard of the Birch organic cotton jersey I was using. It&#8217;s an around-the-house\/PJ top, but it&#8217;s soft and comfy and hey, I made dis!<\/p>\n<p>Item 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/woodman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Woodman Sweater<\/a> from Bristol Ivy&#8217;s wonderful\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pompommag.com\/product\/pre-order-knitting-outside-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knitting Outside the Box<\/a>.<\/em> I made mine up in luscious Magpie Fibers Swanky DK, a merino-cashmere-nylon blend in a beautiful m\u00e9lange of dark blues and grays called Empty Night. This was my February\/March sweater (oh yeah, did I mention I&#8217;m a crazy person trying to finish 12 sweaters in 12 months this year? Yeah, I&#8217;m that crazy person), but our spring has been so long in coming that it&#8217;s gotten a lot of wear. It&#8217;s pretty enough to wear out, but the shape is cozy enough to just bum around the house in too.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah. You might notice a bit of a theme this month&#8230; I do A LOT of bumming around the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thing makers on the internet do when May rolls around. They wear garments that they&#8217;ve made themselves and take photos to post on social media every day of the month to celebrate their craft. I&#8217;ve tried on occasion to participate, but I&#8217;ve decided to jump in with both feet this year: I will post a photo a day on Instagram wearing at least one item of me-made clothing&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=1197\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[117,44,19,37,54,35,22,14],"class_list":["post-1197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-mmmay","tag-cardigans","tag-finished-objects","tag-knits","tag-little-boxes","tag-serging","tag-tops","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}