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<\/center>\nEm has a friend sleeping over, so they have been amusing themselves on The Sims all day, using cheats to get huge amounts of money and building gargantuan houses, leaving me to knit and knit. Janet<\/a> mentioned yesterday how slooow Fair Isle is. I know the feeling – I knit for hours last night and today, and I’m only up to Row 25. It might be finished for Christmas – that would be a good thing, as I’m thinking about giving it to DH’s sister, who likes unusual hats, and would probably wear it far more than I. \ud83d\ude42
\nIs anyone a member of a knitting guild? Particularly the Knitter’s Guild of NSW? As i have mentioned before, I don’t know any “real” knitters close by me. There is certainly no local Knitting group or anything like that. The Knitter’s Guild does have a meeting 20 minutes or so away, though. However, I don’t want to join up if it’s going to be just a bunch of crotchety old ladies like my Grandma, who taught me how to knit. I have nothing against older people, I’m talking about the crotchety old ladies who insist that things be done a certain way, blah, blah, blah. My grandma insisted that I do things her way, when she taught me to knit. She would cast on and make me do garter stitch. I got sick of that, found a book and taught myself. She then told me I was doing things “wrong”. I don’t want to go to a group if that’s what it would be like. I’m certainly not intending to offend anyone!
\nAt the recent craft fair, I approached the Guild table, which was attended by 3 older ladies, who acted as if I couldn’t possibly know my way around a knitting needle. I picked up the “Australian Afghan” book to look, and one lady said “That’s got patterns in it to make a patterned blanket. It’s quite difficult” and she indicated the afghan hanging behind her. I put the book down and walked away. Well, as the cover of the book had the afghan on it, I had figured that out<\/i>! Yes, it was an intarsia afghan, but the way she said it was as if I was a child, touching the grown-ups things. Hello, lady, I can knit!
\nI’m often not very good around new people, so I’m a bit iffy about going to the Guild meeting. But it would be nice to talk to someone who knits something other than novelty scarves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Okay, I’ve done very little apart from knit on the Fair Isle hat all day, and once again, I’m making progress. Here is a silly looking self portrait, modelling the hat. Em has a friend sleeping over, so they have been amusing themselves on The Sims all day, using cheats to get huge amounts of […]<\/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-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}