{"id":546,"date":"2010-04-27T15:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2010-04-27T15:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T20:02:42","slug":"tulip-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Tulip update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My mom called me to ask about the tulips. I said I&#8217;d post more photos, and that was a week ago&#8230; So I took some more yesterday. The early tulips are long gone, and the mid-season flowers are winding down.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/tulips20100426-1.jpg\" alt=\"tulip\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The late season tulips are just starting. We&#8217;ve had a string of cold days, so the buds are dawdling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/tulips20100426-2.jpg\" alt=\"tulip\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the one I&#8217;m waiting for.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/tulips20100426-3.jpg\" alt=\"tulip\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;black&#8221; tulips are the ones that most caught my fancy in Amsterdam, and they are the latest of the bunch. This mutant creature is a double-flowered black tulip, and I&#8217;m anxious to see what it looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Socks make the best travel knitting, so I started a pair before I headed off to Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos2010\/socks20100426.jpg\" alt=\"tulip\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the &#8220;9 to 5 socks&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/allbuttonedup.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/23\/ninetofive\/\">pattern<\/a> by Nicole Hindes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/nine-to-five-socks\">Ravelry page<\/a>). I tweaked the pattern to create opposite diagonals on the second sock; the original pattern uses the same twist on both. I have two ankles and no heels because I didn&#8217;t want to start an unfamiliar heel pattern while travelling and in meetings, so I put the first leg on waste yarn when I got to that point. Nearly to the same point on the second one, and this time I&#8217;ll do the heel and foot, then go back to the first sock. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/supplies\/index.php?main_page=index&#038;cPath=31\">Yarn<\/a> is &#8220;Lawnmower&#8221;, sock weight 75% merino, 25% nylon. I&#8217;m out of Tulip colorway, but obviously it&#8217;s time to dye some more. Maybe to match the photos on this page?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mom called me to ask about the tulips. I said I&#8217;d post more photos, and that was a week ago&#8230; So I took some more yesterday. The early tulips are long gone, and the mid-season flowers are winding down. The late season tulips are just starting. We&#8217;ve had a string of cold days, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-color","category-garden","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}