{"id":2550,"date":"2008-06-28T08:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2026-01-31T22:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T06:00:29","slug":"planning-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/06\/28\/planning-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooler weather is on the way, so I&#8217;ve decided to make Bean a winter hat. I&#8217;m trying to experiment more, and I found a pattern called a Ball-Band Toddler Hat. I used a larger needle to get the gauge right and the darn thing came out too large for her. It&#8217;s a bit small for an adult, but it would fit an older (grade-school age) child. The bigger needle also obscured the stitches a bit &#8212; they&#8217;re not as defined. This first attempt was on Cascade 220, a plain wool yarn; I&#8217;ll donate it to a charity. The hat for Bean will be on a different yarn, now that I know what I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2618443094\/\" title=\"ball band hat 1 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3180\/2618443094_cbda7197f7_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"ball band hat 1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/2618441064\/\" title=\"ball band hat 2 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3038\/2618441064_50c9ee4173_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"ball band hat 2\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooler weather is on the way, so I&#8217;ve decided to make Bean a winter hat. I&#8217;m trying to experiment more, and I found a pattern called a Ball-Band Toddler Hat. I used a larger needle to get the gauge right and the darn thing came out too large for her. It&#8217;s a bit small for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,214,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-domestic-arts","category-motherhood"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13927,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions\/13927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}