{"id":687,"date":"2006-02-11T06:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=687"},"modified":"2006-02-11T06:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T11:08:00","slug":"its-kind-of-like-heroin-for-sock-knitters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"It’s Kind of Like Heroin for Sock Knitters …."},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how cops take pictures after they score a huge drug bust? Neatly piled packages of dope, cocaine, whatever?<\/p>\n

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Yeah. It felt just like that. Practically illegal.<\/p>\n

When Kristin<\/a> hit her breaking point in their house-buying process, she turned to all her knitty friends here & said, “Friends? There is nothing left to do but to channel our good thoughts and hard-earned cash together & buy some fantastically beautiful hand-dyed sock yarn and hope that this house thing turns around for me.”<\/p>\n

So we did. From this place called Blue Moon Fiber Arts<\/a>. The yarn is called “Socks that Rock”. The colors as shown on the website are beautiful, but a pale second to what they represent in real life. (Click here<\/a> to see the photos of the box being opened. Scroll past Polly & her bone.) I got “Queen Rock” and “Fire on the Mountain”, and they are each just STUNNING. Good thing I’m back in Crazy Sock Knitting Mode right now – finished one pair out of Elann Sock-It-To-Me last week, started a pair out of Opal over the weekend, am on the feet-parts right now (two at a time!) with no signs of slowing down. See, dear readers, even though most of the time I just bitch & screech on this blog, when I’m not at work or out eating Thai food, I’m most likely knitting! <\/p>\n

So, yeah, that picture above? Street value of that yarn: $300. And man – oh – man, is this yarn spectacular. Like uncut cocaine, I’m tellin’ ya. (Though honestly, I have no idea what cocaine’s like, except Al Pacino made it seem REALLY energizing in that Scarface movie.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how cops take pictures after they score a huge drug bust? Neatly piled packages of dope, cocaine, whatever? Yeah. It felt just like that. Practically illegal. When Kristin hit her breaking point in their house-buying process, she turned to all her knitty friends here & said, “Friends? There is nothing left to do […]<\/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\/687"}],"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=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}