{"id":111,"date":"2011-11-04T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T01:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-11-25T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:46:28","slug":"bamboo-diamond-shell-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/bamboo-diamond-shell-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo Diamond Shell Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/xoxoblythe\/6310348655\/in\/album-72157623929536384\/\" title=\"Wearing my own hand-knitted sweater!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c8.staticflickr.com\/7\/6116\/6310348655_1630866a89_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Wearing my own hand-knitted sweater!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh my goodness, I finally finished the Bamboo Diamond Shell. A year and seven months <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/projects\/bamboo-diamond-shell-in-progress\/\">in the making<\/a> (okay, I knitted it off and on and put it away for months and months), I finally decided to wear it for the first time today since it was a mild mid-70F day in Los Angeles. The Valley Yarns Southwick bamboo cotton blend (from WEBS\/Yarn.com) kept me nice and warm and it felt really comfortable against my skin too. I love the retro styling! And the button is vintage too! I scored it at one of my favorite flea markets and have been saving it for years to go with the perfect garment.<\/p>\n<p>I actually had all the pieces (collar, bodice, and waist band) finished for months and just couldn&#8217;t bring myself to seam them together. And that said, if you ever see me wear this in person, please don&#8217;t look too closely at the seams! I really need to get myself to a &#8220;finishing school&#8221; or class one of these days. <\/p>\n<p>I actually wore this to work today. It always feels a little awkward\/funny wearing something I knitted, but dang it, it&#8217;s something I made! I&#8217;m a knitter and I&#8217;m proud. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe we have 50 more knitting days until Christmas?! This year has gone by way too fast. I&#8217;ve only done three projects for myself (so many more in the queue!) but I have to start knitting holiday gifts soon!<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is &#8220;Bamboo Diamond Shell&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Boutique-Knits-Laura-Irwin\/dp\/1596680733\/\">Boutique Knits<\/a>. I love this book!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my goodness, I finally finished the Bamboo Diamond Shell. A year and seven months in the making (okay, I knitted it off and on and put it away for months and months), I finally decided to wear it for the first time today since it was a mild mid-70F day in Los Angeles. The&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/bamboo-diamond-shell-completed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bamboo Diamond Shell Completed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-sweater"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}