{"id":463,"date":"2005-12-24T19:57:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=463"},"modified":"2005-12-24T19:57:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T09:57:22","slug":"463","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so Christmas Eve is here! Em is feeling unwell today, just a bit of a cold, but she had to have a nap earlier in the day. Probably a good thing as we&#8217;re off to Midnight Mass for the first time this year. I&#8217;m hoping that getting home at 1am will help her to sleep until at least 8am. Fat chance \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nHubby has been very busy with Christmas feast preparations. Behold, the chicken that looks almost too good to eat. Almost.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6172.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6172.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"308\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThe last minute preparations have been taken care of, the prawns are bought, the chook and the pork are cooked and in the fridge, and Em baked cookies.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6179.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6179.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nIt was hot, too hot to knit the shawl, so I learned a new technique.<br \/>\nLook!!<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6173.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6173.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"297\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nTwo socks on two circs. I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socknitters.com\/2circs\/index.htm\">cyberclass<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socknitters.com\/default.htm\">socknitters<\/a> site. I found it difficult at first. I&#8217;m a visual learner, I like to watch things to learn them, and I found the written directions confusing, but now that I&#8217;ve worked it out, it is far, far, easier than I expected.<br \/>\nThe socks are being knit in Trekking XXL, shade 110 for DH. I am not worried about making them identical, becuase I wound the 100g ball into 2 balls to do the socks and couldn&#8217;t get the ends to match up. I just hope it won&#8217;t drive me totally insane as I&#8217;m knitting them!<br \/>\nEm and Twinkie are waiting for Santa.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_6161.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_6161.JPG\" width=\"398\" height=\"299\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m waiting to see if Em is still awake for Midnight Mass!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so Christmas Eve is here! Em is feeling unwell today, just a bit of a cold, but she had to have a nap earlier in the day. Probably a good thing as we&#8217;re off to Midnight Mass for the first time this year. I&#8217;m hoping that getting home at 1am will help her to [&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-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}