{"id":158,"date":"2004-07-30T23:13:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=158"},"modified":"2004-07-30T23:13:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-30T13:13:25","slug":"when-youre-having-a-crappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"When you&#8217;re having a crappy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re having a crappy day, everyone needs a friend like <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnover.blogdrive.com\/\">Jill<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhilst I was whining about my crappy day yesterday, I failed to mention that the high point of the day was going to the Post Office in the morning to pick up a <i>big<\/i> box of yarn from Jill!<br \/>\nAnd <i>then<\/i> I got to the Post Office this morning and there was a fat envelope from Jill!<br \/>\nThe perfect medicine! \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nShe sent yarn, yarn, and more yarn yesterday, and today there were magazines (yay!), needles for that silly Katia cardigan (12mm straights <i>and<\/i> a 10mm bamboo circular), a Suss poncho kit and a little Origami kit for Em.<br \/>\nSo I got to spend the morning drinking coffee, reading knitting magazines and swatching the Katia. And ignoring the housework. I even got pretty close to gauge on the Katia with the 10mm bamboo circs. Note that I didn&#8217;t get gauge, but seriously, you all would have been surprised if I did, wouldn&#8217;t you? Hell, *I* would be!!<br \/>\nWhy didn&#8217;t I spend the morning finishing the Cloverleafs?<br \/>\nBecause I finished them last night!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cloverleafs2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/cloverleafs2.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"270\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nAnd with the help of my blogfriends and the tips and pointers, I even worked out the Kitchener stitch for the toe. <i>YAY!!!!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re having a crappy day, everyone needs a friend like Jill. Whilst I was whining about my crappy day yesterday, I failed to mention that the high point of the day was going to the Post Office in the morning to pick up a big box of yarn from Jill! And then I got [&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-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}