{"id":117,"date":"2004-06-19T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=117"},"modified":"2004-06-19T22:15:44","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T12:15:44","slug":"i-think-the-internet-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"I think the internet is"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think the internet is not good for me.
\nI have always been involved in one form of craft or another – but knitting is the one I keep coming back to. I have cross stitched, made teddy bears (DH today asked if there was any chance that I could shred the bear fabric and use it to knit with – there are substantial amounts of bear fabric stached around the house ;), made porcelain dolls, sewn, and various other endeavours that have been taken up and cast aside.
\nBut with the internet, I am now developing “me too” syndrome. Charlotte, for instance. Well, she is a little different – I am enjoying knitting her immensely, but after I saw everyone else’s I *had* to have one. Thanks again, Jill<\/a>! \ud83d\ude42
\nThe everyday cardigan. Again, I am enjoying the knit, I love the colour, but if I wasn’t surfing blogs, I would never have known about it, and appreciated it.
\nKerstin<\/a> posted a pic of a cute little doll that she knitted – it really is cute, and now I want to knit it. Nevermind that the magazine is 2 years old and I may never find a copy, I want it. Nevermind that Em is 11 now, and while she still likes dolls right now, she is starting to outgrow them, I want it<\/i>. Annie<\/a>, Mary Beth<\/a> and Margene<\/a> are knitting with Kersti. It’s gorgeous. It’s by Koigu, it’s gotta be good. I want it. Now, really, I don’t need it, yes, it’s lovely, but I have enough yarn stashed to warmly clothe my family for quite some time yet.
\nThe problem is, that these new projects are what I want to make as soon as they arrive. And the older projects get pushed further and further back. I really should knit from the stash. Or make a bear \ud83d\ude42 Or sew a damn dance costume.
\nBut right now I’m going surfing the blogs – and no doubt, whatever I see – I’ll want it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think the internet is not good for me. I have always been involved in one form of craft or another – but knitting is the one I keep coming back to. I have cross stitched, made teddy bears (DH today asked if there was any chance that I could shred the bear fabric and […]<\/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-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}