{"id":1110,"date":"2013-06-10T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2013-06-10T17:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T07:27:19","slug":"happy-birthday-liz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Liz!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Courtesy of Her\u00a0Royal\u00a0Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of England, we get a holiday today. Hooray for Lizzie!\u00a0An extended weekend is always a lovely thing.<\/p>\n

To celebrate there has been a little sewing. Lets backtrack a little. There’s been a whole lot of things going on here at Casa del Random over the past few weeks. As you all know, Calico & Ivy closed at the beginning of May. That meant four of us out of work. I was\u00a0fortunate\u00a0that I also had my casual job at the library, so wasn’t left completely high and dry. I’ve had the job at the library for about two and a half years, but its a casual job, so no job security, no benefits and a whole lot of uncertainty. I had an interview for a more permanent part time role at my library in the middle of April, but hadn’t heard anything. I also had an interview at another library for a full time job. Up until now, in two and a half years of looking for library jobs, I’d managed one interview, which I didn’t get.<\/p>\n

In the past week or so, I got word that I’d won the full time job. But I really<\/em> wanted the part time one. After much agonising and driving the family bonkers, I declined the full time position. It was a risk – library jobs are notoriously hard to come by. 300 people applied for the full time job. Almost 200 applied for the part time one. Last Wednesday I got the call to say I’d also won got the part time job. Yay, me!<\/p>\n

Emily also landed a secretarial job at a nearby law form around a month ago, so for the first time ever, everyone in the family has a permanent job. I cannot even begin to tell you how relieved I am. I knew I was stressed, but didn’t realise how stressed until it was all fixed.<\/p>\n

In other news, my birthday was a week or so ago. David bought me a set of Dyakcraft’s Heavy Metal<\/a> interchangeable knitting needles. \u00a0I love these! Sizes 2mm – 3.25mm metal needles in interchangeables. I’m a loose knitter, and I usually work with finer yarns. It’s a rare day when I use a needle bigger than a 4.5mm (US7). I already have a set of the Dyakcraft Darn Pretty wood needle, but they’re bigger than I usually use, so these are perfect for me.<\/p>\n

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The 2mm are already in Arielle! The only thing I didn’t love was the case. Batik print isn’t really my style, and autumnal colours are most definitely not my style! So I made up a version of my interchangeable case in colours that are much more my preference!<\/p>\n

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I can’t remember if I ever mentioned my Darn Pretties<\/a> here before. These are just gorgeous.<\/p>\n

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In Positively Pink (duh!). My Heavy Metals are the 5″ length, the Pretties are 3.5″. I like both. The wood needles are gorgeous, but not strong enough for smaller sizes, which is why they’ve come up with the metals. I cannot sing the praises of these needles enough. I love them. Love, love, love them! Thy’re smooth and warm and the join is perfect. They’re not as slick as Addi’s, but they’re plenty slick enough for me.<\/p>\n

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The only downside? The wait. Heavy Metals ship relatively quickly, the Darn Pretties don’t. I waited about nine months. Some people have waited far, far longer. I also ordered a set of sock needles on June 15, 2012 and I’m still waiting for those. Yes, a year. Is it worth the wait? I think so, but you may not. (Understandably!)<\/p>\n

I made both cases – the pink one months ago while I was still waiting for the wood needles, the little one this weekend. I put a zip pouch in the wooden one, that hold the cables and stoppers as well as small scissors, a tape measure and a few stitch markers and things. I didn’t bother with the little one, because I intend to just put that one inside the bigger one!<\/p>\n

I also finally finished a little something thats been floating around for months.<\/p>\n

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A little scissors holder in linen and Liberty. What’s not to love?<\/p>\n

What? What’s that? Knitting? Oh yes, I still do that. Arielle grows.<\/p>\n

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Slowly. Funny how 4ply yarn on 2.75mm just doesn’t move quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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