{"id":795,"date":"2015-05-03T10:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=795"},"modified":"2015-05-01T18:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T18:41:28","slug":"finished-object-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Finished Object: Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a bit of a backlog of finished items to share, so I might actually make something of this whole Me-made May trend. Item the first? A sweater!<\/p>\n

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I started this one way back last April for my dissertation in the final round of Nerd Wars. Due to time constraints of Awful Job, I didn’t even come close to finishing. I’ve been on something of a tear to complete or frog all my half-finished projects lately, and Joy was one of the first things to get some attention.<\/p>\n

This is the third sweater I’ve made out of Rowan’s Vintage Knits<\/a> book, and I must say, I find their patterns to be a pain in the butt. The directions are obtuse, the sizing is awful, and a lot of the shaping (please observe the sleeve caps in the photo above) is crummy. But the photos as styled in the book make me want to BE that English\/French countryside fairy princess, so I keep on knitting them. Sigh.<\/p>\n

The pattern calls for fingering-weight wool, and I instead worked it up in a heavy-fingering weight cotton. I omitted the beads and just did purls so as not to add even more weight to the finished garment. I skipped the buttonholes and sewed on snaps instead, with buttons on the right side facing on top of the male ends to give it a more vintage-y touch. The aforementioned sleeve caps I tried to pull in to a sort of “puff sleeve” shape.<\/p>\n

I haven’s actually worn this yet, but now that I have a thing (or two) that I think I can actually wear it\u00a0over<\/em>… but those are another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve got a bit of a backlog of finished items to share, so I might actually make something of this whole Me-made May trend. Item the first? A sweater! I started this one way back last April for my dissertation in the final round of Nerd Wars. Due to time constraints of Awful Job, I didn’t even come close to finishing. I’ve been on something of a tear to complete.. 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":[29,20,28,26],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-cotton","tag-finished-object","tag-rowan","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","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=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}