{"id":1041,"date":"2011-01-22T17:23:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2011-01-22T17:23:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T07:23:42","slug":"not-recommended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1041","title":{"rendered":"Not recommended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still here. At least I think I am. To anyone playing along at home, whilst I was at work on my second day at Calico &#038; Ivy, my other new job called, and asked me to start on Thursday last.<br \/>\nSo essentially, I started two new jobs in one week, after the luxury of having no job at all for almost a decade. It&#8217;s not bad, it&#8217;s actually quite fun. But not so fun is working out how to effectively arrange my time. And the blog, and my knitting have suffered. I could also say that the housework has suffered, but let&#8217;s be honest, it was never at the top of my priority list!<br \/>\nBut I did manage to get something done this week! The linen top I&#8217;ve been working on, the one I&#8217;ve knit twice in fact, is done, done, done!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20008.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20008.html','popup','width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20008-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nSpecs:<br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/coco-6\">Coco<\/a> by Yumiko Alexander<br \/>\nYarn: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/yarns\/library\/fibranatura-flax\">Fibranatura Flax<\/a> in &#8220;Raseberry&#8221;, purchased at The Wool Inn<br \/>\nNeedles: First off, 3.5mm, then 4mm. Check your tension!!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m very happy with it &#8211; I finished it on Monday night, and wore it to work on Tuesday. I even did the two rows of single crochet around the bottom and the single row around the top. Whomever said that crochet is quick lied. Lied. Lied. Lied.<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s done, even though <a href=\"http:\/\/knitabulous.blogspot.com\/\">Knitabulous<\/a> thought I&#8217;d either whine all over twitter about the crochet, or try to palm it off on her. The shoulder straps are just i-cord, which I knitted on the way down to Canberra last weekend when we went to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov.au\/Exhibition\/BalletsRusses\/\">Ballet Russes exhibition at the National Gallery<\/a> &#8211; which was gorgeous!<br \/>\nso the top is lovely, and lovely to wear, too!<br \/>\nNext? Not sure. There&#8217;s a few small projects floating about, like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/pompom-fancy\">Pompom Tea Cosy<\/a> for a shop sample.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20018.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20018.html','popup','width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20018-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd the restarted Shurtu&#8217;gal socks, this time in red Wollmeise (Vamp)!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20021.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20021.html','popup','width=600,height=800,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/190111%20021-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nMuch better than the original, although they&#8217;ve barely been touched in days!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve also picked up some Felted Tweed from the shop (amongst other things \ud83d\ude09 to make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/bohus-inspired-hat\">Bohus Inspired Hat<\/a> for David from the Interweave Holiday Gifts 2010 issue. Which my spell check keeps wanting to change to Bogus. Bogus Hat it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still here. At least I think I am. To anyone playing along at home, whilst I was at work on my second day at Calico &#038; Ivy, my other new job called, and asked me to start on Thursday last. So essentially, I started two new jobs in one week, after the luxury of [&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-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","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=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}