{"id":101,"date":"2009-07-18T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-07-21T17:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T16:15:40","slug":"baby-surprise-jacket-by-elizabeth-zimmermann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought the book &#8216;The Opinionated Knitter&#8217; by Elizabeth Zimmermann.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who knit who haven&#8217;t heard of EZ, go look her up, she produced some amazing patterns, written in a very simple style, she is no longer alive, but her patterns are still very popular.<\/p>\n<p>The Baby Surprise Jacket is particually popular and is of a very interesting construction.\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/bexx\/baby-surprise-jacket\" target=\"_blank\">On Ravelry<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>So today I have started knitting my first one, from the &#8216;notes&#8217; in her book.\u00a0 Its very interesting as it is knitting in 1 peice, but not in the round, the only seams are on the top of the arms (none on the under side of the arms or on the body.<\/p>\n<p>I used the 3 needle i-cord cast off for the shoulder seams, and a i-cord edging for the rest.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_2624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113\" title=\"First BSJ\" src=\"http:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_2624-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"First Baby Surprise Jacket\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_2624-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_2624.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Baby Surprise Jacket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently bought the book &#8216;The Opinionated Knitter&#8217; by Elizabeth Zimmermann. For those of you who knit who haven&#8217;t heard of EZ, go look her up, she produced some amazing patterns, written in a very simple style, she is no longer alive, but her patterns are still very popular. The Baby Surprise Jacket is particually &#8230; <a title=\"Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/?p=101\" aria-label=\"More on Baby Surprise Jacket by Elizabeth Zimmermann\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,43,143,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}