{"id":240,"date":"2012-04-19T06:21:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T13:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=240"},"modified":"2012-04-17T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T02:18:18","slug":"windy-city-knitting-guild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/04\/windy-city-knitting-guild\/","title":{"rendered":"Windy City Knitting Guild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, I headed to Chicagoland for some classes with the wonderful ladies and gentleman of the Windy City Knitting Guild. As soon as I landed, my gracious host Tina asked what I like to eat. “Portillo’s!” I exclaimed. I might have overdone it with three italian beefs in three days, but it was YUMMYLICIOUS. Oh right, we knit too! Here are the cute mini-socks everybody finished in the Toe-Up Socks With Gusset class with the vase of tulips Cathy brought to class. They were some of the speediest knitters I’ve ever encountered. I only had to explain the cast-on once, and they were off.<\/p>\n

\"Toe-up<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course there were some sock addicts. Michelle<\/a> showed off her license plate and her PB and J socks<\/a> from last year’s sock club (pattern now available through Ravelry).<\/p>\n

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

\"Michelle's<\/a><\/p>\n

Frances<\/a> showed off her pink Ripple Leaf socks<\/a> also from last year’s sock club (pattern now available through Ravelry).<\/p>\n

\"Frances's<\/a><\/p>\n

Rachel showed off her Stalagmites<\/a> in progress.<\/p>\n

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

It’s hard to say whose feet these are, but I think they are Rachel and Abby donning Kai-Mei<\/a> and Monkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Kai-Mei<\/a>
\nMichelle, Rachel and Abby also knit sweaters and wore some to class.<\/p>\n

\"Michelle,<\/a><\/p>\n

Frances likes to knit lace like this Estonian shawl pattern from Nancy Bush. Alas, I tried to get a photo of Tina’s shawls, but she moves too fast!<\/p>\n

\"Frances's<\/a><\/p>\n

I had the pleasure of meeting Lynne of Grinning Gargoyle yarns<\/a>, a local dyer. I especially love her gargoyle artwork. It reminds me of the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n

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

She brought some of her goodies to class.<\/p>\n

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

And of course, I may have walked away with a small reminder of Chicago.<\/p>\n

\"Grinning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, I headed to Chicagoland for some classes with the wonderful ladies and gentleman of the Windy City Knitting Guild. As soon as I landed, my gracious host Tina asked what I like to eat. “Portillo’s!” I exclaimed. I might have overdone it with three italian beefs in three days, but it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}