{"id":1012,"date":"2011-01-01T23:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2011-01-01T23:06:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:06:38","slug":"week-one-of-the-11-pairs-in-2011-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Week One of the 11 pairs in 2011 Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was joining the 11 mittens for 2011<\/strong> challenge on the Ravelry group I Make Mittens<\/a>. <\/em> Our start time was midnight GMT on New Years Eve, \u00a0which meant that I could start at 7 p.m. my time. I was about to sit down to a lovely prime rib dinner then, so it was closer to 8 p.m. before I actually cast on. We watched a couple of shows on Netflix instant download after supper and I astonished myself by (a) staying up to midnight (it’s been a long time since I bothered to stay up for New Year’s) and (b) finishing the first mitten. I cast on for the second one Saturday morning and finished grafting the thumb tip at about 10 p.m. Myrriah suggested the color combination here. She said it would be a “witchy” look!<\/p>\n

\"Green<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m probably going to make a pair with blue cuffs and black hands next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I mentioned a few days ago that I was joining the 11 mittens for 2011 challenge on the Ravelry group I Make Mittens. Our start time was midnight GMT on New Years Eve, \u00a0which meant that I could start at 7 p.m. my time. I was about to sit down to a lovely … Continue reading “Week One of the 11 pairs in 2011 Challenge”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85],"tags":[88,99,107,112],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-11mittensfor2011","tag-fo","tag-mittens","tag-postaweek2011"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-gk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1003,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1003","url_meta":{"origin":1012,"position":0},"title":"11 pairs of mittens in 2011","author":"Jorah","date":"December 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If you had any doubts that I have rocks in my head, please retire those doubts now. 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