{"id":27,"date":"2013-11-02T17:08:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:46:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T17:46:02","slug":"stella-makes-knitting-needles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Stella Makes Knitting Needles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Stella made her own knitting needles and wanted to share her tutorial:<\/p>\n<p>Follow these steps to make your own.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7400\/10634656234_5c1f90a5e2.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nFirst gather all of your supplies. You will need a 1\/8 inch wood dowel seven inches long, sand paper fine and course grit, wax paper, glue, and two beads that fit on your dowel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3766\/10634717464_db36e25d3c.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nFirst have an adult cut the dowel in half and use the course sand paper to sand one end of each needle to a point.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3821\/10634828003_1ee305d609.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nSand each needle with the fine grit sand paper until it is very smooth. You don&#8217;t want anything that will catch on your yarn.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5525\/10635003003_86dbc90833.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nOnce your needles are smooth rub each needle with the wax paper. This gives them a nice finish and helps the yarn slide on the finished needles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3686\/10635019553_2c0668c992.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nPut a small amount of glue on the blunt end of your knitting needles and carefully place your bead. The beads I chose fit on the dowel perfectly so I didn&#8217;t need much glue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5541\/10634756316_b5f7a4c3c6.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nAfter your glue dries your needles are done!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3744\/10631711564_d171090b0c.jpg\" alt=\" \" \/><br \/>\nHere is an action shot,\u00a0 knitting a scarf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Stella made her own knitting needles and wanted to share her tutorial: Follow these steps to make your own. First gather all of your supplies. You will need a 1\/8 inch wood dowel seven inches long, sand paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/?p=27\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.wildfishy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}