{"id":16258,"date":"2012-11-01T06:15:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16258"},"modified":"2012-11-01T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T17:17:55","slug":"erssie-knits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16258","title":{"rendered":"Erssie Knits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/magicthrow-150x144.jpg\" alt=\"Knitted Throw\" title=\"Knitted Throw\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I have no skill at knitting, and I never regret that more than when I run across patterns like the ones at <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/\">Erssie Knits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Erssie Major is a UK knitter who has been featured in several magazines, and her work has a definite pagan\/goth bent.  She makes many of her patterns available online, either free (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/knitting-charts\/skully-gothic-charts\/11321918\">this<\/a> cute calavera) or quite inexpensively (like <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/ghostskulls\/\">this<\/a> skully knit cap).<\/p>\n<p>The site is a little hard to navigate, since some links seem to circle back on themselves and the sidebar isn&#8217;t consistent, but the patterns are worth a bit of digging.  I love this <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/gothic-glam-yule-hat\/\">goth glam hat<\/a>, and the collection of symbols in the <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/magickal-throw\/\">magickal throw<\/a> is impressive (although it&#8217;d be nice if they were sold as a bundle in addition to individually).<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s also got a <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a> where she features new creations.  One of her latest is <a href=\"http:\/\/erssieknits.squarespace.com\/blog\/2012\/9\/29\/stevies-dennis-aka-savage-skull-i-started-the.html\">this<\/a> great &#8220;punk skull&#8221; sweater; she notes that she&#8217;ll make a pattern available for it soon.<\/p>\n<p>If you knit, definitely check out the collection.  There are some great potential holiday gifts.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> &#8211; Apparently Erssie decided to clean up her site and ditch the patterns two days ago.  You can still find them at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/search#query=erssie\">Ravelry<\/a>: If you don&#8217;t have an account and don&#8217;t want to register, get a username\/password at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/view\/ravelry.com\">BugMeNot<\/a>.  Just log in and search for &#8220;Erssie.&#8221;  (Bah.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no skill at knitting, and I never regret that more than when I run across patterns like the ones at Erssie Knits. Erssie Major is a UK knitter who has been featured in several magazines, and her work has a definite pagan\/goth bent. She makes many of her patterns available online, either free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16304,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16258\/revisions\/16304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}