{"id":1169,"date":"2017-01-08T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2017-01-08T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:34:14","slug":"design-your-own-lopapeysa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Design Your Own Lopapeysa!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the success of my practice peysa, I decided to go right ahead and make one with lopi! I was originally just going to do another variation on the same pattern from the free pattern I used for the practice peysa, but then I discovered this tool for building your own knitting pattern: knittingpatterns.is\/<\/a> and I got hooked. Note that it required Microsoft Silverlight.<\/p>\n

Now I feel like I need to design my own, especially since a quick Google search reveals that (understandably) everybody in the world has knitted the peysa from that free pattern. Whereas if I design my own, then I will have a one-of-a-kind!<\/p>\n

This is what I’ve come up with so far:<\/p>\n

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This is a digital imagining of what my sweater will look like, generated by the tool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m also thinking of having the sleeve patterns on the waistband.<\/p>\n

And when you export it, it generates a whole knitting pattern for you, including how many stitches to cast on, where to make increases\/decreases, etc. It is really cool! Por ejemplo:<\/p>\n

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This is the second page of my generated knitting pattern pdf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I told Doc that if he designed a lopapeysa in that tool, I’d knit it for him for his birthday. So of course, this is what he came up with:<\/p>\n

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Doc obviously went for the more traditional route…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m excited to begin knitting these!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the success of my practice peysa, I decided to go right ahead and make one with lopi! I was originally just going to do another variation on the same pattern from the free pattern I used for the practice peysa, but then I discovered this tool for building your own knitting pattern: knittingpatterns.is\/ and … Continue reading “Design Your Own Lopapeysa!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}