{"id":823,"date":"2006-03-21T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2006-03-21T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T00:02:00","slug":"what-to-knit-for-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"What to knit for a baby."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My kid&#8217;s first grade teacher is going out on leave in early April.  I&#8217;m thinking I should knit something for her upcoming baby boy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more And so, I solicit your opinions!--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Angelcombo.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nWool and angora.  Cuuuute, but not super-practical for washing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/bootiebottom2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA wool\/cashmere blend.  Not super-practical, again, but man is it soft.  I&#8217;ve got some nice blues, too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/CBhat.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMachine washable wool, but sized for 12 months.  Difficult to size down unless I re-write it, which I guess I could do.  I&#8217;ve actually written a pattern booklet for this one up, and some local yarn shops have expressed an interest in carrying it.  I need to get off my keister and take a better picture of it for that purpose. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.booboomonkey.com\/tvini\/knothat2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSwirly madness for the standard umbilical cord hat.  I do have some blue\/brown\/green Noro Lily, which is what this yarn is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/babysocks.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nSuperwash wool.  I&#8217;ve got a lot of this leftover from <lj user=panzermama>&#8216;s baby socks, but it but maybe too &#8220;girly.&#8221;  I&#8217;m not sure how traditional this teacher is.  By the way, that was a super-sweet thank you note that <lj user=panzermama> sent.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/berryhat.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCotton strawberry hat.  Some things are just classic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/devilhat.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think she&#8217;d think it was Satanic, but you never know.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/dinohat3a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nRawr!  I could probably size it down, but might be bumpy on the back for a baby who can&#8217;t hold their head up.<\/p>\n<p>Or do I bite the bullet and do what I probably should do for this woman who teaches my daughter for six hours a day and make a sweater?  I know I&#8217;ve got Jill Eaton&#8217;s Minnies floating around here somewhere, and I&#8217;ve got this fantastic Crystal Palace cotton chenille, hand-dyed by the lovely and talented <lj user=houseofdanie>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/coolcotton.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These aren&#8217;t the only options.  I can still wing something, it&#8217;s just that time is short.  And I am not making a baby blanket.<\/p>\n<p>I dunno.  I just need to be sure I&#8217;m thinking of how the end result will feel to the recipient, and not just of what seems cool for me to knit.  I&#8217;m paralyzed with indecision!<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kid&#8217;s first grade teacher is going out on leave in early April. I&#8217;m thinking I should knit something for her upcoming baby boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}