{"id":397,"date":"2005-07-29T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2005-07-29T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=397"},"modified":"2005-07-29T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2005-07-29T04:55:12","slug":"397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boring knitting updates! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nThe Fair Isle Hat grows, and grows, and grows. But doesn&#8217;t end!<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fairislehat290705.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/fairislehat290705.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m now up to Row 126, which means I only have 65 or so rows to go. Only. At least the rows are getting smaller!<br \/>\nThe cropped cardi.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"croppedcardi290705.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/croppedcardi290705.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"294\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got all the bits on the needles now, and I can start the neck and raglan shaping. I&#8217;ve fudged the number, because I wanted a deeper v-neck. If you could see my maths, you&#8217;d laugh hysterically, so it will be an adventure to see how it comes out. Adventure. My life needs some excitement \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nBranching Out.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"branchingout290705.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/branchingout290705.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t shown it in a while, because I&#8217;ve been neglecting it. Oops. Here&#8217;s a close up.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"branchingout290705close.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/branchingout290705close.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nIt needs to be finished and blocked. Must work more on the scarf!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been tagged for another meme. Annie at <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyandme.blogspot.com\/\">Ruby Girl<\/a> tagged me for this one. I&#8217;m going to meet Annie and some of the other ANZKR webring girls tomorrow at Wollongong SnB. Hooray!<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t answer them all, because I couldn&#8217;t think of some responses.<br \/>\n<b>10 years ago:<\/b><br \/>\nEm was a toddler, I was a working mother, realising that there were some pretty serious problems in my marriage.<br \/>\n<b>5 years ago:<\/b><br \/>\nI was a single mother, Em was in school, I was still working, hanging out for my long service leave so that I could quit my job. DH had just moved in with us.<br \/>\n<b>1 year ago:<\/b><br \/>\nHmm.. things were pretty much as they are now. DH was diagnosed with Hodgkins Disease 2.5 years ago, a year ago he was a year out from his treatment and in remission, and things were starting to go back to &#8220;normal&#8221;.<br \/>\n<b>Yesterday:<\/b><br \/>\nWent down the street, made a vain attempt at catching up on housework, did some costume sewing, a little knitting, homework and dance practice with Em, dance lessons later in the evening, caught up on some email, tried to knit again.<br \/>\n<b>Today:<\/b><br \/>\nEm was running late for school, did the grocery shopping, stopped at Mum&#8217;s house, went to the Post Office and the chemist, did some washing, played with Twinky, tried to do more housework, just had some lunch, it&#8217;s now 1.45pm. Still have to pick Em up from school, more dance lessons, organise a meal for dinner, more sewing waiting, hope to knit a bit.<br \/>\n<b>Tomorrow:<\/b><br \/>\nStitch n Bitch Wollongong. Yay!<br \/>\nOh, and housework, more washing, Mass at 6pm, same old, same old.<br \/>\n<b>5 snacks I enjoy:<\/b> Chocolate, potato chips, chocolate, tim tams, chocolate.<br \/>\n<b>5 bands\/singers that I know the lyrics of MOST of their songs:<\/b><br \/>\nINXS, Duran Duran, Kasey Chambers, most  music from the 80&#8217;s. Hilary bloody Duff. Em has played it, and played it and played it.<br \/>\n<b>5 Things I would do with $100,000,000<\/b><br \/>\nBuy a house. Buy my Mum a house. Buy a new car. Go on a holiday to the US and buy lots and lots of yarn. Stop sewing costumes for the dance school.<br \/>\n<b>5 locations I&#8217;d like to run away to:<\/b><br \/>\nManitoba. Cold, but they have Polar Bears! Hawaii? I&#8217;ve never been out of the country. Hell, I hadn&#8217;t been out of the state until around 6 years ago.<br \/>\n<b>5 things I like doing:<\/b><br \/>\nknitting, sewing (sometimes), eating, sleeping, singing. (Badly)<br \/>\n<b>5 things I would never wear:<\/b><br \/>\nMini skirts (those days are gone!), low, low rise pants (you know the ones &#8211; you need a bikini wax to wear your *jeans*!), hotpants, tights, midriff tops.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s plenty of meme&#8217;s for now, you people know too many of my quirks \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boring knitting updates! \ud83d\ude09 The Fair Isle Hat grows, and grows, and grows. But doesn&#8217;t end! I&#8217;m now up to Row 126, which means I only have 65 or so rows to go. Only. At least the rows are getting smaller! The cropped cardi. 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