{"id":5797,"date":"2014-11-25T21:21:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=5797"},"modified":"2014-12-23T20:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T01:31:44","slug":"toy-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2014\/11\/toy-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

After finishing the mouse family I knit this cute snowman – about 6″ to the top of his pom pom.<\/p>\n

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

And this tree, just a bit shorter.<\/p>\n

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

What’s this? <\/p>\n

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

The tree’s inside<\/em> the snowman?<\/p>\n

Yep. Knitted together, one comprehensive piece.<\/p>\n

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

Great concept! This is just one of several toys in this book.<\/p>\n

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

I found the directions clear and easy to follow. The toys — at least the ones I made — were cleverly designed. I think I stuffed my snowman’s head a bit too much so the top of the tree’s a little flat, but hey, it’s a toy, not a work of art.<\/p>\n

The designer and author – Susan Anderson<\/a> – has written other knitting books for kids, too. If there’s a little one in your life, I suggest checking them out. She also has other patterns for big people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After finishing the mouse family I knit this cute snowman – about 6″ to the top of his pom pom.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And this tree, just a bit shorter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

What’s this? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The tree’s inside the snowman?<\/p>\n

Yep. Knitted together, one comprehensive piece.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Great concept! This is just one of several toys in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[277,535],"class_list":["post-5797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-i-see-it","tag-christmas","tag-knitting","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5804,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5797\/revisions\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}