{"id":271,"date":"2013-11-10T16:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2016-12-02T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T19:05:27","slug":"a-visit-to-stitches-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I finally made it to Stitches East! It&#8217;s been held in Hartford, CT, for several years now and this is my first visit. I&#8217;ve been to most of the sheep and wool festivals but never this retail knitting show sponsored by Knitting Universe\/Knitters Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise, it was a ton of fun. Here&#8217;s a peek at some of the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stitches13Crowd1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stitches13Crowd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A very creative skirt knit by the wearer with inserts of faux fur<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/StitchesFurSkirt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"746\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handspunartyarn.com\/\">Ashley Martineau<\/a> getting ready to sign her newly published book. (BTW, great book with tons and tons of photos!)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stitches13Ashley1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t forget the book cover so you can look it up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Stitches13Book1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I came home with a few bags of yarn, a knitter&#8217;s abacus bracelet and the book. Maybe a few other things. It&#8217;s a long year away until the next Stitches East!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I finally made it to Stitches East! It&#8217;s been held in Hartford, CT, for several years now and this is my first visit. I&#8217;ve been to most of the sheep and wool festivals but never this retail knitting show sponsored by Knitting Universe\/Knitters Magazine. No surprise, it was a ton of fun. Here&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/?p=271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[47,45,48,44,46],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-crochet","tag-knitting","tag-spinning","tag-stitches-east","tag-weaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moondancecolor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}