{"id":186,"date":"2004-09-02T22:44:15","date_gmt":"2004-09-02T12:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=186"},"modified":"2004-09-02T22:44:15","modified_gmt":"2004-09-02T12:44:15","slug":"somehow-i-made-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Somehow I made it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I made it all through Winter without any colds, flu, sinus or anything. Now that it&#8217;s Spring, I&#8217;ve been hit with a big head cold. Bah!<br \/>\nI finished Making Waves! I <i>finally<\/i> have a FO. It feels like it&#8217;s been forever since I had one. I&#8217;m certainly not churning them out as quickly as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandysknitting.com\/\">Sandy<\/a>!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll have pics tomorrow if the weather is good.<br \/>\nSo I decided to restart Em&#8217;s poncho, following some of <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnover.blogdrive.com\/\">Jill<\/a>&#8216;s excellent tips.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m going to start with a provisional cast on, and if it fits well, I&#8217;ll do an applied i-cord edging at the neck. Woohoo! Both new techniques for me, so I whipped out my &#8220;Knitters Book of Finishing Techniques&#8221; and was pleasantly surprised by how easy the provisional cast on was!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"caston.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/caston.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"218\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nThis is as far as I have got so far, but I&#8217;m feeling ridiculously proud of myself for having tackled a new technique successfully.<br \/>\nI joined the Random Act of Kindness webring the other day, and today received my first RAOK! <a href=\"http:\/\/plath.blogspot.com\/\">Lisa<\/a> sent me a gift voucher for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adagio.com\/\">Adagio Teas<\/a>. Very enticing \ud83d\ude42 Thankyou Lisa!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I made it all through Winter without any colds, flu, sinus or anything. Now that it&#8217;s Spring, I&#8217;ve been hit with a big head cold. Bah! I finished Making Waves! I finally have a FO. It feels like it&#8217;s been forever since I had one. I&#8217;m certainly not churning them out as quickly as [&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-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}