{"id":309,"date":"2005-04-03T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-04-03T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-03T22:36:00","slug":"ah-the-folly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Folly."},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like finishing a wool sweater as Spring\/Summer approaches. Sigh. However, the sense of accomplishment is still HUGE. The pattern for this wonderful sweater is here<\/a href> at Knitty.com. <\/p>\n

Retrospective notes about this sweater? I made it a little big, thinking I’d wear it more like a coat. I would have made the sleeves a little shorter, remembered to put in bust darts, and I would have experimented with the collar – perhaps instead of the shawl collar, a polo-esque collar that would have fallen a bit lower & spread out more across the sweater, but that’s just me thinkin’ after the fact. Not that it’s too late to re-do that part, if I decide to – but right now I’m content to be DONE. <\/p>\n

Overall, it’s going to be a warm, cozy sweater that fits, has unmatched style, and is a major knitting accomplishment for me. A friend from the guild looked at my sweater & immediately said she’d never wear all those flowers around her neck, and of course I replied, “Good thing I didn’t make this for you, then!”<\/p>\n

I’ve never lacked chutzpah, despite not being Jewish – and it’s probably why I wanted to make this sweater in the first place. So I present, the Folly Fotos:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing like finishing a wool sweater as Spring\/Summer approaches. Sigh. However, the sense of accomplishment is still HUGE. The pattern for this wonderful sweater is here at Knitty.com. Retrospective notes about this sweater? I made it a little big, thinking I’d wear it more like a coat. I would have made the sleeves a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}