{"id":464,"date":"2013-01-01T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=464"},"modified":"2013-01-01T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T14:48:23","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2013\/01\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2012 was a busy year. As I look forward to 2013, here are a few highlights from the past year.<\/p>\n<p>In April I took a trip to Iceland, where there was beautiful scenery,<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gullfoss by knit cookie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/knit_cookie\/7069398775\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gullfoss\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5333\/7069398775_901c2f0419.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wonderful knitters, and of course lots and lots (and LOTS!) of wool.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Grey bales by knit cookie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/knit_cookie\/7040078751\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Grey bales\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7059\/7040078751_eaa8191535.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summer&#8217;s work culminated in the publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/sources\/cookie-a-knitwear-volume-1-shapes--form\">Shapes + Form<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/08\/shapes-form-sneak-peek\/shapesandformcover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-319\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-319\" alt=\"Cookie A Knitwear Volume 1: Shapes + Form\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ShapesAndFormCover-425x500.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ShapesAndFormCover-425x500.jpg 425w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/ShapesAndFormCover.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And sweater knitters took themselves in new directions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/11\/conic-everywhere\/gus-conic-back\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-401\" alt=\"Gus Conic back\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gus-Conic-back-500x278.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gus-Conic-back-500x278.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Gus-Conic-back.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I visited Chicago twice to teach socks with the Windy City Knitting Guild and Vogue Knitting Live (and eat Italian beef, of course).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Toe-up socks by knit cookie, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/knit_cookie\/7088945065\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Toe-up socks\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7121\/7088945065_4b86f83e2e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"489\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/10\/my-kind-of-town\/imag1381\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-406\" alt=\"Al's Italian Beef\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1381-500x357.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1381-500x357.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/IMAG1381-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/shop\/knit-sock-love\/\">Knit. Sock. Love.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0was reprinted both in Finnish and in German.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/06\/knit-sock-love-now-in-finnish\/dsc_1236\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-262\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sukkia. rakkaudella.\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/DSC_1236-418x500.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/12\/knit-sock-love-now-in-german\/ksl-german-edition\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KSL German edition\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/KSL-German-edition.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sock club knitters kept busy knitting up socks and baking cookies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/reykjavik-socks\">Reykjavik<\/a> was one of the most popular patterns this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/07\/reykjavik-and-solfar-july-week-2\/dsc_1369\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-284\" alt=\"Reykjavik socks\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1369-500x332.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1369-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC_1369-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/jedi-mind-tricks\">Jedi Mind Tricks<\/a> might have been the most fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/09\/gyokuro-and-jedi-mind-trick-september-week-1-cookie\/dsc_1858\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-345\" alt=\"Jedi Mind Trick\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1858-500x332.jpg 500w, http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1858-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anne Hanson came to visit in November and we spent a lovely weekend visiting friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.averbforkeepingwarm.com\/\">A Verb for Keeping Warm<\/a> and enjoying the scenery in Marin County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?attachment_id=490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-490\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-490\" alt=\"friAVFKWgroup11_06\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/friAVFKWgroup11_06.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?attachment_id=492\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-492\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-492\" alt=\"satPtReyesBchL11_06\" src=\"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/satPtReyesBchL11_06.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"351\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2013 is shaping up to be an interesting year, too. Between teaching and a vacation to somewhere a little exotic (can you guess?) I&#8217;m going to be traveling a little bit more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 was a busy year. As I look forward to 2013, here are a few highlights from the past year. In April I took a trip to Iceland, where there was beautiful scenery, Wonderful knitters, and of course lots and lots (and LOTS!) of wool. The summer&#8217;s work culminated in the publication of Shapes + [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}