{"id":2362,"date":"2005-10-09T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:26:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:26:04","slug":"my-first-finished-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/10\/09\/my-first-finished-object\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Finished Object!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so very pleased with how it came out. Look! <\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/50705412\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  border='0' style='border:1px solid #000000; margin:2px' src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/30\/50705412_8adb98dfec.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"my first knit project\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s too short to be the scarf I wanted, so I will use it as a small table runner for the top of a book case that has family photos.<\/p>\n<p>Husband encouraged me to go to Michael&#8217;s to get more yarn. I bought some Lion Bran for a new scarf and a hat. I also bought some inexpensive yarn which I hope will become a small cat blanket, of sorts, to cover the furniture. This will make cleaning easier, since I can toss them in the wash rather than vacuum the chair. It&#8217;s ambitious &#8212; they aren&#8217;t large or fancy, but it will take time. I also bought more needles&#8230; they are much less expensive (about half the price).<\/p>\n<p>To prepare, I wound three skeins into center-pull balls. Now my arms ache. Time for sleep!<\/p>\n<p>Yarn details: Crystal Palace Yarns Musique ; 65 yards\/50 grams; 2.5-3.5 sts\/inch; size 10.5-11 US; 45% acrylic, 40% wool, 15% cotton; vendor Straw Into Gold, Richmond, CA, www.straw.com; $6.25 skein, 2 skeins bought at Knitting Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so very pleased with how it came out. Look! It&#8217;s too short to be the scarf I wanted, so I will use it as a small table runner for the top of a book case that has family photos. Husband encouraged me to go to Michael&#8217;s to get more yarn. I bought some Lion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestic-arts","category-recreation"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10950,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions\/10950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}