{"id":2551,"date":"2013-05-30T11:47:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2013-06-14T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T23:19:11","slug":"hand-towel-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/hand-towel-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Towel Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate dish rags, but I LOVE hand towels.<\/p>\n<p>Especially hand towels that really REALLY absorb water.<\/p>\n<p>So I made one.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2560 \" alt=\"Heather's Handtowel\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255.jpg\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255.jpg 1936w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9255-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1936px) 100vw, 1936px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather&#8217;s Handtowel<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhen What (else) Would Madame Defarge Knit? was coming out I needed some mindless knitting to keep me cognitively anchored (ahem) but not overwhelm me.<\/p>\n<p>Enter my very own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/heathers-hand-towel\">hand towel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0blocked mine wet\u2026 well\u2026 just because that\u2019s what I do when I wash knitted things. It didn\u2019t really need it.<\/p>\n<p>The stitch pattern is easy when you know what you\u2019re doing, but if you\u2019ve never knit twisted stitches, I recommend watching the brief tutorial video that is linked to from the pattern. It\u2019s a private link so you won\u2019t be able to search for it\u2014just use the direct link on page 2.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label><\/label><label>\u00a0<\/label><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2559 \" alt=\"Heather's Handtowel reverse\" src=\"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252.jpg 1936w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_9252-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather&#8217;s Handtowel reverse<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><label>Yarns suggested\u2014\u00a0<\/label><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/lily-sugarn-cream-stripes\">Lily Sugar&#8217;n Cream Stripes<\/a><\/div>\n<div><label>Yarn weight\u2014\u00a0<\/label>Worsted \/ 10 ply (9 wpi)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/heathers-hand-towel#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Information on yarn weights\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/style3.ravelrycache.com\/images\/silk-help-2.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><label>Gauge \u2014<\/label>6.5 stitches and 8 rows = 1 inch in garter<\/div>\n<div><label>Needle size\u2014<\/label>US 6 &#8211; 4.0 mm<\/div>\n<div><label>Yardage\u2014<\/label>95 &#8211; 175 yards (87 &#8211; 160 m)<\/div>\n<p>$3 USD \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/purchase\/crafting-a-life-originals\/152993\">buy now<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate dish rags, but I LOVE hand towels. Especially hand towels that really REALLY absorb water. So I made one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,293,3,195],"tags":[282,390],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-fun","category-designs","category-knitting","category-patterns","tag-pattern","tag-towel","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}