{"id":609,"date":"2006-12-03T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T07:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=609"},"modified":"2006-12-03T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T07:41:12","slug":"609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday sky.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1203.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1203.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nGrey, rainy, taken from the roof of <a href=\"http:\/\/castadrift.blogspot.com\/\">Jussi&#8217;s<\/a> building. What a hostess! We had a lovely soiree, complete with wonderful company and <em>yummy<\/em> food. Jus can cook as well as she can knit, it was a feast of gastronomic excellence.<br \/>\nShe even served yarn.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1211.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1211.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1210.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1210.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAs modelled by <a href=\"http:\/\/pick-up-sticks.blogspot.com\/\">Ailsa<\/a>. It&#8217;s Iranian fairy floss, called Pashmak. (I think). Yummy, and definitely looked like yarn.<br \/>\nThere was cheesecake.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1213.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1213.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moggyandme.blogs.com\/\">Donni<\/a> ate all that. Seriously. Or not.<br \/>\nThen she tried to show us precisely how Em leapt over the step.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1222.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1222.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nThere was some delightful company.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1218.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1218.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lara.nettle.org\/blog\/\">Lara.<\/a><br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1216.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1216.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nSandra, <a href=\"http:\/\/manainkblog.typepad.com\/\">Mary-Helen<\/a>, and Ailsa.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1209.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1209.html','popup','width=950,height=734,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_1209-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"324\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nEm, Ailsa, Donni, and the lovely Jussi herself.<br \/>\nAnd one more blurry pic of everyone in attendance.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1214.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1214.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_1214-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWe had a great time, it was just a shame that more people didn&#8217;t make it.<br \/>\nThere was knitting.<br \/>\nI should never have said that the Lace Panel Sweater was going too well. It&#8217;s done nothing but stuff me around ever since.<br \/>\nAt some point yesterday, I realized that I was short a stitch in one of the lace panels. Emily insisted that it was because of the wine I&#8217;d drunk, but in fact the mistake was made before I&#8217;d even left for Jussi&#8217;s party, and I&#8217;d just blindly knitted for 10 rows past the mistake.<br \/>\n<em>That<\/em> may have been the fault of the wine.<br \/>\nSo most of the work I did yesterday was frogging.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m beginning to dislike this sweater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday sky. Grey, rainy, taken from the roof of Jussi&#8217;s building. What a hostess! We had a lovely soiree, complete with wonderful company and yummy food. Jus can cook as well as she can knit, it was a feast of gastronomic excellence. She even served yarn. As modelled by Ailsa. 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