{"id":1250,"date":"2007-06-06T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2007-06-06T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:36:00","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1250","title":{"rendered":"And now for something completely different."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/jewelry\/dragonflyearring1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/jewelry\/dragonflyearring1-thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a>Every year so far, I&#8217;ve made something for my daughter&#8217;s teacher&#8217;s children.  In kindergarten, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/boxboy.jpg\">this cotton sweater<\/a>.  In first grade, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Babypullover\/bpdone2.jpg\">this baby pullover<\/a>.  Unfortunately, this year, my daughter&#8217;s teacher has three daughters, ages 14, 16, and 18.  I love this teacher, but I am not making three full-sized sweaters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/jewelry\/dragonflyearring2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/jewelry\/dragonflyearring2-thumb.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"2\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a> Instead, I&#8217;m going with earrings.  Four sets, because Emily said that the teacher needed one too, which seems only fair.  Because I&#8217;m a stickler for high-quality materials, the beads and findings are sterling silver and the colored bits are Swarovski crystal.  I&#8217;ll let the teacher decide who&#8217;s going to get what.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased with how these turned out.  I&#8217;ve got more dragonfly wings and Swarovski in my stash, so maybe I should make some for sale.  Hm.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year so far, I&#8217;ve made something for my daughter&#8217;s teacher&#8217;s children. In kindergarten, it was this cotton sweater. In first grade, it was this baby pullover. Unfortunately, this year, my daughter&#8217;s teacher has three daughters, ages 14, 16, and 18. I love this teacher, but I am not making three full-sized sweaters. Instead, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}