{"id":248,"date":"2004-03-08T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2009-08-18T23:21:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T03:21:02","slug":"its-not-easy-being-green-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not easy being green."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; margin: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/040308-001.jpg\" alt=\"kureyon hat unfinished\" width=\"200\" \/>So someone saw me knitting the boob hat and wanted one in similar colors.  Being the cheap person that I am, I picked out an all-wool yarn from the same manufacturer in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theknitter.com\/yarn-noro-kureyon.html\">colorway 87<\/a> and started knitting.  However, as I knit it up, I realized that the outside of the skein was deceptive.  All the green was tucked way, way inside the ball.  It ain&#8217;t purple.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/040308-001.jpg\">It ain&#8217;t even close.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m presented with several options.  Finish knitting the hat and give it to her, even though it&#8217;s not what she thought she was going to get, finish the hat and find someone else who wants it (unlikely, since all my contact in real life is with a four year old), or unravel it, make something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyboardbiologist.net\/Patterns\/LittlePartitionedBag.html\">this<\/a> for myself, and just suck it up and buy some new yarn for her.  Opinions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So someone saw me knitting the boob hat and wanted one in similar colors. Being the cheap person that I am, I picked out an all-wool yarn from the same manufacturer in colorway 87 and started knitting. However, as I knit it up, I realized that the outside of the skein was deceptive. All the [&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":[5,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248"}],"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=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2131,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/2131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}