{"id":102,"date":"2004-06-02T23:10:41","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T13:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=102"},"modified":"2004-06-02T23:10:41","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T13:10:41","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Shrinking Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting up to Row 90 last night, and getting ready to add in Colour 4, I looked at Charlotte. And I looked again, and I came to the grim realisation that she looked, well, <i>small<\/i>.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s okay, I tell myself, she&#8217;ll block out bigger. Then I measured her, did some math and realised that she was <b>small<\/b>. At row 90, she was only 12&#8243; long. So I cruised some of the other blogs, and found that <a href=\"http:\/\/irwinmb.typepad.com\/my_knitting_life\/\">Mary Beth <\/a> is up to row 105 and her Charlotte is 17&#8243; long.<br \/>\nCould you hear me crying? It is <i>much<\/i> quicker to frog Charlotte than it is to knit her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sandysknitting.blog-city.com\/\">Sandy<\/a> frogged hers so cheerfully. I wasn&#8217;t feeling cheerful. I ripped it and balled it all back up again. But I did immediately cast back on again. I got up to row 30 or so, and had to frog it again, but after doing nothing all day (well, not much) except knit, I&#8217;m back to row 50!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"charlotte0206041.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/charlotte0206041.JPG\" width=\"339\" height=\"245\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nSo what happened? In my infinite wisdom, I didn&#8217;t swatch.  I assured myself that I <i>always<\/i> knit too loose, and have to go down at <i>least<\/i> one needle size. And it&#8217;s lace, so it doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s a bit big. Ha. Ha. Ha. I have had to go up to a 6mm needle to get gauge.  I even had to go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ozeyarn.com\/\">ozeyarn<\/a> to order a 40&#8243; needle, as I only have a 24&#8243;. Oh, the pain \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nSubsequently, I didn&#8217;t get anything done on Everyday.<br \/>\nHowever I have volunteered, and am honoured to have been first in line to test knit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendyknits.net\/\">Wendy&#8217;s<\/a> newest design, Luanne, in the 44.5&#8243; size.<br \/>\nWoooo Hooooooo!!<br \/>\nAnother project! More yarn to buy!! Colour me <b>excited<\/b> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After getting up to Row 90 last night, and getting ready to add in Colour 4, I looked at Charlotte. And I looked again, and I came to the grim realisation that she looked, well, small. That&#8217;s okay, I tell myself, she&#8217;ll block out bigger. Then I measured her, did some math and realised that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}