{"id":196,"date":"2019-01-18T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:56:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:56:20","slug":"mathematical-slippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/mathematical-slippers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Slippers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"945\" height=\"782\" src=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rule-of-three-slippers-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rule-of-three-slippers-9.jpg 945w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rule-of-three-slippers-9-300x248.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rule-of-three-slippers-9-768x636.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rule-of-three-slippers-9-660x546.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">When the colder weather came I couldn\u2019t wear my normal  slippers, because I had an injury to my leg a few months ago and it was still strapped up. I decided to knit some. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">I looked at various existing patterns but then decided to design my own because I suddenly realised that feet are basically the same proportions,  regardless of the size, and it would be possible to create a pattern  that would fit anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">This is an archetypal Woolly Thoughts pattern. The slippers can be  made with any yarn and any needles in any size you want, without having  to make a tension swatch. The only maths required is to be able to  divide a small number by three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">The slippers can be customised in various ways and are ideal for using up oddments of yarn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/rule-of-three-slippers\">Download the free pattern &#8211; Rule of Three Slippers.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the colder weather came I couldn\u2019t wear my normal slippers, because I had an injury to my leg a few months ago and it was still strapped up. I decided to knit some. I looked at various existing patterns but then decided to design my own because I suddenly realised that feet are basically &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[13,21,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}