{"id":66,"date":"2011-05-22T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T00:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-06-17T00:43:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T00:43:26","slug":"portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ptld.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67\" title=\"ptld\" src=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ptld.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ptld.png 400w, https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ptld-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Generally, I post about my own original design projects here, but lately have been knitting projects from other\u2019s patterns.\u00a0 My latest (and to date, favorite!) sweater is\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/cityscape-2\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/cityscape-2\">Cityscape<\/a>\u00a0by Laura Chau, published in\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/twistcollective.com\/2010\/fall\/magazinepage_01.php\" href=\"http:\/\/twistcollective.com\/2010\/fall\/magazinepage_01.php\">Twist Collective Fall 2010<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I wanted to personalize mine, so added in four of Portland\u2019s bridges (Morrison, Burnside, Fremont and St John\u2019s), the Oregon Convention Center\u2019s towers and Union Station.<\/p>\n<p>It is knit in Madelinetosh Tosh Merino DK in Olivia, Nebula &amp; Smokestack and finished off with buttons to match Nebula that I picked up at a funky (funky in a strange bizarre way, more than funky in a cool way) fabric store in Pinole, CA while in the bay area for Stitches West 2010.<\/p>\n<p>I love how it came together, love the yarn, love the colors, love that people can recognize my bridges &amp; buildings!\u00a0 love, love, love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, I post about my own original design projects here, but lately have been knitting projects from other\u2019s patterns.\u00a0 My latest (and to date, favorite!) sweater is\u00a0Cityscape\u00a0by Laura Chau, published in\u00a0Twist Collective Fall 2010. However, I wanted to personalize mine, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/portland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[35,32,36,34,33,37],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting","category-pattern","tag-cityscape","tag-finished-objects","tag-laura-chau","tag-madelinetosh","tag-sweater","tag-twist-collective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}