{"id":486,"date":"2006-02-05T17:15:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T07:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=486"},"modified":"2006-02-05T17:15:46","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T07:15:46","slug":"486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=486","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Both Donni<\/a> and Danielle<\/a> posted this week about being in a knitting funk, and I think it’s catching.
\nI finished all the pieces for the Cotton Ease jacket on Thursday, and was ready to block and seam it so that I could do the collar. We had really hot days Wednesday and Thursday, and I need hot days to block, because I block on the floor, and we have a tiny little house. Friday dawned cloudy, and so did Saturday. Today was a little better, but family days are not the best for blocking, either.
\nSo I was faced with “What next?”
\nI had some more cotton ease that was intended for Wendy’s<\/a> “Girlfriend’s School Spirit Sweater”<\/a> for Em. So I pulled out the pattern and the yarn, and realised that Em is actually just a tiny bit bigger than the chest measurement for the size 10. At first I thought “It won’t matter” and I cast on. Took a few goes to get the gauge right, but I got it going.
\nThen a few things occured to me. Em is 13 next month and she’s growing<\/em> if you know what I mean. If she is just a bit bigger than the 10 now, by winter she might be even more bigger than the 10.
\nAnd I hate the cotton ease knitted at 19sts\/10cm. Hate It. It was quite nice to work with at 17sts\/10cm, but too stiff and crunchy at the tighter gauge.
\nSo after working on it Thursday night and most of Friday, I ripped it out.
\nThen I decided to start the mystery project. It’s a small thing, will be done in no time! Knit and knit and knit, Friday night. Used a needle one size smaller than recommended, becuase I always<\/em> need to go down a size. I half finished the first piece, measured the length as required, and realised my gauge was off. Did I swatch? No. I always<\/em> need to go down a size!
\nNot this time. This time, my gauge is perect on the recommended size needles. Rip it out, start again.
\nSo that’s going quite well, but it’s a mystery project, and I don’t want the recipient (or I should say the recipients mother!) to see it before I give it to her. So I need something that I can also knit on, so I’ll have blog fodder.
\nAm I the only one who considers the blog when I decide what to knit?
\nDanielle<\/a> sent me this gorgeous Cherry Tree Hill Possum Lace a little while ago.
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\nI have scarf ideas. So I went out yesterday and bought some beads, and I think I’ll play with this for a while.
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\nDon’t you love those colours? The scarf ideas are very vague right now, but I’m sure I’ll come up with something!
\nIt has also occured to me that I am way behind on some of my sewing, so I need to get stuck into that this week. I’m just not in a sewing frame of mind right now.
\nHasn’t this been a long post full of nothing?!?
\nOh, and late as usual, my word cloud!
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\nIt’s tempting to order the tshirt, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both Donni and Danielle posted this week about being in a knitting funk, and I think it’s catching. I finished all the pieces for the Cotton Ease jacket on Thursday, and was ready to block and seam it so that I could do the collar. We had really hot days Wednesday and Thursday, and I […]<\/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-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","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=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}