{"id":1301,"date":"2011-01-07T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-01-05T10:31:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T16:31:49","slug":"baby-arm-warmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/1301","title":{"rendered":"Baby arm warmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  indeed. by sundaykofax,   on Flickr&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/5325523129\/&#8221;><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5204\/5325523129_1916b5857d_m.jpg\" alt=\"Tiny thumb hole, indeed.\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>Full credit for this pattern and idea go to Eidolons&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wildfaeriecaps.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/infant-arm-warmers.html\">blog post and pattern<\/a>. Her baby chews sleeves, my baby can&#8217;t doesn&#8217;t have enough sleeve to chew. Either way, baby arm warms save the day.<\/p>\n<p>80 is a long, tall drink of milk. All of the sleeves of her shirts and onesies are too short. She looks like she&#8217;s always heading to a clam dig, wearing three quarter sleeves and capris. Since we live in a northern climate, having bare wrists in winter is not something I&#8217;m willing to live with. Thus, the baby arm warmers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baby arm warmers! by sundaykofax, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/5325522885\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5005\/5325522885_1860988a94_m.jpg\" alt=\"Baby arm warmers!\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Arm warmers are probably the second-most easy thing to knit (outside of a scarf), and BABY arm warmers are even better because they&#8217;re small and are quick to knit. It&#8217;s like knitting a hat you don&#8217;t have to do any decreases on, and you get to use up small amounts of yarn that are curled up in the bottom of your stash.<\/p>\n<p>I used sport-weight yarn, and did 36 stitches in a k2, p2 rib. The yarn is KnitPicks Stroll in Heath Multi.<\/p>\n<p>I added thumb holes, but they turn out not to be necessary for indoors. I think I&#8217;d put the thumbhole in effect if I was then going to put mittens on her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>indeed. by sundaykofax, on Flickr&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sundaykofax\/5325523129\/&#8221;>Full credit for this pattern and idea go to Eidolons&#8217;s blog post and pattern. Her baby chews sleeves, my baby can&#8217;t doesn&#8217;t have enough sleeve to chew. Either way, baby arm warms save the day. 80 is a long, tall drink of milk. All of the sleeves of her shirts [&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":[209,259,120,240,260,109],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine","tag-209","tag-arm-warmers","tag-baby","tag-how-to","tag-knit","tag-knitting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}