{"id":36,"date":"2010-01-20T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2010-01-20T21:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T05:51:34","slug":"5-cable-baby-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"5 Cable Baby Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like all I knit these days are baby hats!\u00a0 So many babies!\u00a0 This one was made for another coworker, who should be delivering any day now. I was tired of pink, and wanted a change, but still wanted something feminine, since she knew she was having a girl, so here comes purple!\u00a0 I have enjoyed working with the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/yarns\/vannaschoice.html\"> Vanna&#8217;s Choice<\/a> yarn, made by Lion Brand, since it is a durable, acrylic blend, which will make for easy washing and long wearing (hopefully) for the little girls I&#8217;ve been knitting for.\u00a0 This 5 Cable hat is a variant of the 10 Cable hat from <a href=\"http:\/\/heyjulie.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/18\/cabled-baby-hats\/\">Hey Julie<\/a>.\u00a0 Seriously, I <em>love<\/em> these patterns, and they will be my go-to baby hats from now on.\u00a0 They would also be a good project for a new knitter who was interested in trying cables for the first time.\u00a0 I have found that I am not too fond of the SSK (Slip Slip Knit) stitch as a decrease method, my stitches always look too big for some reason.\u00a0 I have tried adjusting my tension, but haven&#8217;t been able to make them look less bulky than the other stitches.\u00a0 Anyways, I loved making this hat, and I think it turned out well!\u00a0 What do you think?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_8520.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41\" title=\"IMG_8520\" src=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_8520-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_8520-300x243.jpg 300w, http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_8520.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like all I knit these days are baby hats!\u00a0 So many babies!\u00a0 This one was made for another coworker, who should be delivering&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/?p=36\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">5 Cable Baby Hat<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyalphin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}