{"id":1841,"date":"2008-11-19T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2008-11-19T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T20:51:00","slug":"ahead-of-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of the game."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/4thgradefuzzy.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\">Every year I make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter02\/PATTfuzzyfeet.html\" target=\"blank\">FuzzyFeet<\/a> for my kid&#8217;s teacher as a Christmas gift.  Em picks out the color yarn that I should use.  I send them with her unfelted, along with a zippered pillowcase and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearwithstyle.com\/felting.html\" target=\"blank\">a sheet on how to felt and the science of why it works.<\/a>  We&#8217;ve had good teachers every year, so I tend to think they&#8217;ll appreciate a fun little project that&#8217;s also educational.<\/p>\n<p>Every year I leave this until the last minute because I put the Jayne hats first, and every year I&#8217;m frantically knitting the night before school lets out because I&#8217;ve forgotten that school lets out sooner than I expect and I don&#8217;t have the time I thought I did.  One year I even drafted <a href=\"http:\/\/turtlegirl76.com\" target=\"blank\">Turtlegirl76<\/a> to  knit them for me because I had absolutely no time and I really needed it to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year!  This year&#8217;s FuzzyFeet are in Lamb&#8217;s Pride worsted colorway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarnzilla.com\/product_info.php?products_id=5178\" target=\"blank\">Red Hot Passion<\/a> and they&#8217;re finished!  Another item I can check off the list.  Hooray!<\/p>\n<p>(For those wondering how big those slippers are before they shrink and felt, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/fuzzyhead.jpg\" target=\"blank\">voila.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I make FuzzyFeet for my kid&#8217;s teacher as a Christmas gift. Em picks out the color yarn that I should use. I send them with her unfelted, along with a zippered pillowcase and a sheet on how to felt and the science of why it works. We&#8217;ve had good teachers every year, so [&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":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841"}],"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=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}