{"id":611,"date":"2006-12-09T20:46:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=611"},"modified":"2006-12-09T20:46:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T10:46:44","slug":"611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday again, they sure do come around quick, don&#8217;t they?<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_1339.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1339.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAnother beautiful day, although it had started out gloomy and grey.<br \/>\nI have sleevage.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1338.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1338.html','popup','width=950,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_1338-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"316\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTwo sleeves, knit exactly as the pattern said. They look very narrow, but I&#8217;m too lazy to adjust the pattern, and frankly, I&#8217;m already over this sweater. They go around my arm, but I don&#8217;t have skinny little arms anymore, and I think they&#8217;re going to be fairly fitted. I&#8217;m hoping they&#8217;ll loosen up a little with blocking.<br \/>\nAfter much consideration, I ripped the front back to the mistakes.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1336.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1336.html','popup','width=950,height=721,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_1336-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"318\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI have to admit that I was very tempted to just leave it as it was, but it would have driven me mad knowing the mistakes were there. It&#8217;s not too bad, I&#8217;m at the armhole shaping, so there&#8217;s not <em>too<\/em> much to be done.<br \/>\nI have a blocking question for everyone.<br \/>\nThe back neck has some live stitches sitting on a stitch holder, waiting to do the neckband. Do you prefer to block it, live stitches and all, then seam and do the neckband, or do you seam, do the neckband, then block?<br \/>\nUsually I seam the shoulders, then do the neckband, then block it as one piece before puttng in the sleeves and doing the side seams, but I was interested to see what everyone else does.<br \/>\nNew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter06\/index.html\">Knitty!<\/a><br \/>\nDavid loves this, but I think I&#8217;m too lazy.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"byteALT.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/byteALT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nFor myself, I like the monkey socks. (There&#8217;s a surprise!)<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"monkeySIDE.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/monkeySIDE.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAnd the Argosy scarf.<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"argosyALT.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/argosyALT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"530\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAnd Em likes the Piggle hat.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/tamemaneBEAUTY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tamemaneBEAUTY.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/tamemaneBEAUTY-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd I haven&#8217;t shown her Twinkletoes, but don&#8217;t they just have her name all over them?<br \/>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twinkletoesALT.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/twinkletoesALT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAnd they were designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloesparkle.blogspot.com\/\">Chloe<\/a>, who was my lace swap pal!<br \/>\nHowever, I have no Calmer. I&#8217;ve never knit with Calmer before, though have heard all good things. I don&#8217;t suppose anyone has a lonely ball laying about in a girly colour that they want to offload? \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nIs it worth buying just one ball for them? Like I&#8217;ve ever needed too much of an armtwisting when it comes to yarn buying!<br \/>\nA Twinkie photo. She&#8217;s found a new hiding place.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1333.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1333.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_1333-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nStill no green christmas tree, but I bought a new Christmas candle.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1342.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_1342.html','popup','width=950,height=702,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_1342-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"310\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nPretty!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday again, they sure do come around quick, don&#8217;t they? Another beautiful day, although it had started out gloomy and grey. I have sleevage. Two sleeves, knit exactly as the pattern said. They look very narrow, but I&#8217;m too lazy to adjust the pattern, and frankly, I&#8217;m already over this sweater. They go around my [&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-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}