{"id":605,"date":"2006-11-21T12:24:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T02:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=605"},"modified":"2006-11-21T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T02:24:50","slug":"605","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Zigzag socks!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1136.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1136.html','popup','width=662,height=850,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1136-thumb.jpg\" width=\"327\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1138.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1138.html','popup','width=949,height=716,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1138-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"316\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nSorry for the crappy pictures. David has found a box, and we&#8217;re going to build a lightbox ala <a href=\"http:\/\/pick-up-sticks.blogspot.com\/\">Ailsa<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe yarn is Lorna&#8217;s Laces Shepherd Sock in &#8220;Somerset&#8221; and was a lovely gift from <a href=\"http:\/\/pearls-mother.blogspot.com\/\">Lindy<\/a>.<br \/>\nAs soon as I get a decent picture, I&#8217;ll fix up the pdf and upload the pattern.<br \/>\nA little more work has been done on the Lace Panel Sweater, too.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1135.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1135.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1135-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTrue to form, I&#8217;m not even halfway through this sweater, and I&#8217;ve found a new obsession.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"142.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/142.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"360\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/whiteliesdesigns.com\/patterns\/lpullovers\/142.html\">Krista Tee<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/whiteliesdesigns.com\/\">White Lies Designs.<\/a><br \/>\nIsn&#8217;t it gorgeous? I have resisted ordering it so far, though.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m trying to be strong. In order not to just add willy nilly to the stash, I&#8217;m going to sit and think on this top for awhile. I love it, really. But I&#8217;m going to work on the lace panel sweater, and when I&#8217;m nearly done with it, <em>then<\/em> I&#8217;ll order the Krista kit.<br \/>\nWho thinks I won&#8217;t last? (I&#8217;m raising my own hand here! \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nHowever, look what I did buy!<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w477W2WhTfg\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w477W2WhTfg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry he&#8217;s sideways! I can&#8217;t work out how to turn it right side up.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s a 3 feet tall singing and dancing polar bear, and I love him! I&#8217;ve been eyeing him off for a few weeks, and when we were at the store on the weekend, there was only one left. Really, I&#8217;m surprised  held out that long. He has four different songs, and David claims he&#8217;s sick of them all already.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not! He&#8217;s the closest thing I&#8217;ll ever get to a real polar bear.<br \/>\nTwinkie hasn&#8217;t really been intoduced to him yet, but if he loses a toe, she&#8217;s in big trouble.<br \/>\nAnd in the most recent news, my mum fell over down the street yesterday. She&#8217;s grazed her face and shoulder, given herself a black eye, cracked two bones in her hand, and cut open a finger. She&#8217;s in a half cast right now, so this morning I went up to do her dishes ad hang her washing, but she claims she can manage just fine. I did do  few little jobs for her, though.<br \/>\nYou think she&#8217;d be taking full advantage of the situation and putting us kids to work &#8211; payback for all those years she had to do it for us!<br \/>\nAs you can see from this picture, it&#8217;s not exactly a hardship going up to help out mum.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/home.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/home.html','popup','width=736,height=627,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/home-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"357\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe red circle is my house, and the blue one is mum&#8217;s. It&#8217;s maybe 250 metres away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the Zigzag socks! Sorry for the crappy pictures. David has found a box, and we&#8217;re going to build a lightbox ala Ailsa. The yarn is Lorna&#8217;s Laces Shepherd Sock in &#8220;Somerset&#8221; and was a lovely gift from Lindy. As soon as I get a decent picture, I&#8217;ll fix up the pdf and upload [&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-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}