{"id":145,"date":"2009-02-07T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/uncategorized\/branching-out\/"},"modified":"2009-02-07T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T20:22:00","slug":"branching-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/branching-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Branching Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HHkUT9QfAf8\/T1z7gTtALMI\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/QUcB5HJr0tY\/s1600\/p1050273.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HHkUT9QfAf8\/T1z7gTtALMI\/AAAAAAAAA2E\/QUcB5HJr0tY\/s400\/p1050273.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m not actually knitting <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEspring05\/PATTbranchingout.html\">Branching Out<\/a>, but I&#8217;m really trying to branch out from knitting to crocheting! After talking about it for a few years (and accumulating quite a few books), I finally decided to take the plunge and tried my hand at crochet! Here&#8217;s the very first thing I tried, a little flower. I&#8217;m surprised it actually came out looking like a flower!<\/p>\n<p>There are some knitters who pooh-pooh on crocheters, and I&#8217;ve had crocheters come up to me and my friends at a cafe and make comments on how crocheting is better than knitting(!). One thing&#8217;s for sure &#8211; craftspeople sure are passionate about their craft. I guess I am a knitter by nature, but you won&#8217;t see me put crocheters down &#8211; I think crocheting is amazing! There are so many things you can do with crocheting that just isn&#8217;t the same with knitting, and I want to try it all, especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amigurumi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amigurumi<\/a>!  I&#8217;m an equal-opportunity crafter \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m not actually knitting Branching Out, but I&#8217;m really trying to branch out from knitting to crocheting! After talking about it for a few years (and accumulating quite a few books), I finally decided to take the plunge and tried my hand at crochet! Here&#8217;s the very first thing I tried, a little flower.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/branching-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Branching Out<\/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":[40,39,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-flower","category-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","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=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}