{"id":179,"date":"2005-02-23T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T17:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=179"},"modified":"2005-02-23T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T17:07:47","slug":"felting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Felting??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I do to to deal with my grief is stay busy! \ud83d\ude42  And, knitting has been a great gift for that!  And, those who know my in real life know about my obsession of purses &#8211; but I never pay very much for them or it&#8217;s no fun!<\/p>\n<p>So, I have seen some CUTE felted bags out there &#8211; but I have no idea how to begin!  If I wanted to start cheap &#8211; ie get the products from JoAnns or Michaels &#8211; what yarn do I buy?  Any tricks?  I&#8217;d be very grateful if you would leave a comment about how to get started with felting &#8211; but cheaply!  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The back is done and one side is about 2\/3 done.\u00c2\u00a0 I've\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":242,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=242","url_meta":{"origin":179,"position":3},"title":"Today","date":"August 26, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Today our Certified Teacher, Brandy, came to visit J2 and I for the start of our year. We went over TONS of paperwork and figured out the next few weeks of our lesson plans. It's nice to have it done even though we really enjoy Brandy. 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I was knitting 6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d tall gnomes and a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12332,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=12332","url_meta":{"origin":179,"position":5},"title":"My newest knitting project&#8230;wonderfully mindless #knitting","date":"August 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}