{"id":53573,"date":"2014-12-21T00:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=53573"},"modified":"2014-12-21T00:09:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T08:09:06","slug":"new-fangled-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53573","title":{"rendered":"arm yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMy book designer, Karina, discovered a new way of knitting at her last craft party. If you haven&#8217;t heard of this latest craze, it&#8217;s easy, it&#8217;s fun, and it&#8217;s fast &#8230; necessarily so, since you&#8217;re all tied up &#8230; literally &#8230;\u00a0in yarn, using your arms instead of needles. And as you can imagine, there are a number of reasons why you can&#8217;t be\u00a0tied up for too long.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53574\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53574\" class=\"wp-image-53574 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/arm-knitting.jpg\" alt=\"arm-knitting\" width=\"360\" height=\"463\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo, flaxandtwine.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Because of the size of the stitches your &#8220;needles&#8221; produce, you can make an infinity scarf in about a half hour, even if you&#8217;re a beginner.<\/p>\n<p>Find a step-by-step written tutorial with photos for the scarf pictured above at a wonderful blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flaxandtwine.com\/2014\/02\/arm-knitting-how-to-photo-tutorial-part-1-casting-on\/\">Flax &amp; Twine: A Happy Handmade Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or knit a blanket in just 45 minutes with a great video tutorial from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplymaggie.com\/arm-knit-a-blanket-in-45-minutes\">SimplyMaggie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMYRrOG27C0?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>An added bonus? It&#8217;s a workout for your arms &#8230; we&#8217;re talking toning, big time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: For 20% off Lion Brand Quickie Arm Knitting Yarn, enter MARYJANES20 in the coupon code box during checkout for yarns\u00a0at:\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yarncanada.ca\/categories\/lion-brand\/shop-by-product-line\/quickie-yarn.html\"><em><u><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/www.yarncanada.ca\/categories\/lion-brand\/shop-by-product-line\/quickie-yarn.html<\/span><\/u><\/em><\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book designer, Karina, discovered a new way of knitting at her last craft party. If you haven&#8217;t heard of this latest craze, it&#8217;s easy, it&#8217;s fun, and it&#8217;s fast &#8230; necessarily so, since you&#8217;re all tied up &#8230; literally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}