{"id":956,"date":"2014-02-27T02:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annetarsia.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:47:15","slug":"stitches-west-2014-argyle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/2014\/02\/stitches-west-2014-argyle-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Stitches West 2014 &#8211; Argyle class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love teaching knitters the ins and outs of argyle socks. I&#8217;ve been teaching this class since Sock Summit 2009, and I not only am not tired of it, I&#8217;m enjoying the class more than ever. The yarns we have to knit argyles with just keep getting more amazing, it is super-fun to knit a sock &#8220;flat&#8221;, and watching knitters knit a gusset flat is just a hoot. Knitters seem to like it, too, there is a lot of laughter (when they are not concentrating), and sharing of yarn to put more and more colors into their swatches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-954\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-42-e1393467034672.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-954\" alt=\"a study of concentration\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-42-e1393467034672.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a study of concentration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Stitches West 2014 group was particularly enjoyable to be with. Toward the end of the day, some of them let me photograph them with their work.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-51-e1393466992282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-955\" alt=\"photo 5(1)\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-51-e1393466992282.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-34-e1393467113857.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-952\" alt=\"a pop of orange...\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-34-e1393467113857.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a pop of orange&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-24-e1393467306849.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-949\" alt=\"sharon\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-24-e1393467306849.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" style=\"width: 2448px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-23-e1393467408962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-948\" alt=\"Sandy dressed to match her swatch!  Funny how that happens, sometimes\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-23-e1393467408962.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy dressed to match her swatch! Funny how that happens, sometimes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-11-e1393466916731.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-946\" alt=\"Disney colors\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-11-e1393466916731.jpg\" width=\"2448\" height=\"3264\" \/><\/a> Then, a few knitters got the idea to get all of the swatches together on a table.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" style=\"width: 3264px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-950\" alt=\"a plethora of colorful swatches\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-25.jpg\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a plethora of colorful swatches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-12-e1393467452434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-947\" alt=\"photo 1(2)\" src=\"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo-12-e1393467452434.jpg\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve since heard from a few of them by e-mail, with plans to knit their full-size argyles, and I look forward to finding out how they progress. All classes are special, but this is a group I wouldn&#8217;t mind scheduling a reunion with at Stitches West 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love teaching knitters the ins and outs of argyle socks. I&#8217;ve been teaching this class since Sock Summit 2009, and I not only am not tired of it, I&#8217;m enjoying the class more than ever. The yarns we have to knit argyles with just keep getting more amazing, it is super-fun to knit [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[74,83,82,95,94],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-blog","tag-argyle","tag-intarsia","tag-knitting","tag-sock-summit","tag-stitches-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartonriveryarn.com\/annetarsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}