{"id":151,"date":"2011-01-27T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T16:06:38","slug":"belated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"belated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"late socks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5391704983\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5137\/5391704983_2be08675d0.jpg\" alt=\"late socks\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a>By some miracle, I finished about a dozen homemade Christmas presents on time this year&#8211; except one. It was the first present I started and the last one I finished, but the upside is I had time to snap a picture of it before I shipped it off. These are the socks I <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=115\" target=\"_blank\">practiced for<\/a>, and it&#8217;s a good thing I did, because they turned out much better the second time around. I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitting-crochet.com\/soc.html\" target=\"_blank\">this pattern<\/a>&#8212; it&#8217;s pretty easy and involves very little counting of stitches, which can be tedious. The yarn was something I landed on after a lot of research and deliberation, because I wanted to get something really high quality that knitted up like a tweed. I settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmybeanswool.com\/knitting\/yarn\/Colinette\/Jitterbug.asp?showLarge=true&amp;specPCVID=11178\" target=\"_blank\">this yarn<\/a>, which was a dream to knit with and made for a crazy-soft finished pair of socks. Included with the socks was this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"thank you note\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9696222@N02\/5392307150\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5093\/5392307150_15397fc73c.jpg\" alt=\"thank you note\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>The sock recipient was also a gift card giver, and my favorite way to say thank you for a gift card is to draw exactly what I got with it. Drawing out presents makes them seem a lot more tangible than if you just list them, and the care put into drawing really drives home the gratitude. In the end, this package was a month late, but was hopefully worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By some miracle, I finished about a dozen homemade Christmas presents on time this year&#8211; except one. It was the first present I started and the last one I finished, but the upside is I had time to snap a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/?p=151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/childerhouseblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}