{"id":649,"date":"2007-03-27T16:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=649"},"modified":"2007-03-27T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T06:24:07","slug":"649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you everyone for all of Em’s lovely birthday wishes. I’m way behind on my emails, so I apologise profusely and thank you this way instead.
\nShe had a very good weekend and was spoiled thoroughly. We had a big day out on Sunday, when we went into the city and went to the markets and Emily spent all of her birthday money. (It burn holes in your pocket, you know).
\nWe caught the train into the city, which made an excellent knitting opportunity, thankyouverymuch.
\nI’ve started a new sock for my mother in law for mothers day. When we were visiting at Christams time she was very admiring of the fact that I was knitting socks, and that deserves a pair, doesn’t it?
\nI started them through the week, snatching a minute here and there to work on them.The yarn in Koigu, in colourway P308, a gorgeous blend of pinks and browns. I had tried a few different patterns, but the only one I was happy with in this colourway was ordinary 3 x 1 ribbing. Here is where I was at when we left on Sunday morning.
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\nThis is how much I got done by the time we got home.
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\nMaybe I should take more train trips!
\nThese pictures were taken on my new mobile phone. My mobile phone died most unhelpfully on Thursday morning. I still had 6 months to go on my contract, but my phone company decided that I’m a wonderful customer, and because I give them so much of David’s hard earned money, they let me have a new phone and a new contract at no extra charge. That part was great!
\nFinding out that I’d stored all my phone numbers in the phone, and they were unrecoverable wasn’t great. So if I ever had your number, Idon’t have it any more. If I may need it at some point in the future, you’d better email me.
\nAnyway, it takes nice pictures, but the colours are wrong.
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\nThat’s far more accurate!
\nI’m a bit worried that I’ve made the cuff too short, and that the colours might be a little bright, but David assures me that they’re fine. She does live in Queensland, where it doesn’t get terribly cold.
\nWhile we were in the city, we took Em to the Supre city store. Supre is the place to shop if you’re between 13 and 16 and shaped like a twig.
\nThe store is huge. There are 5 levels of clothing, much of whihc is in dubious taste. Em was in heaven. David was prepared.
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\nWe were in there for more than an hour. Emily left minus a nice chunk of change, and I only had to veto a few things.
\nThey have a little bit of fashion knitwear. I don’t knit an awful lot for her anymore, as she has drawers full of unworn stuff that I’ve knit. But they had jumpers for around $40. She kept saying “Is that worth it?”
\nOf course, she wanted me to say “No, I’ll knit you one.” $40??
\nInstead, I said “Totally worth it! Buy it!”
\nYes, I’m a bad knit mother.
\nIn other knitting news, I have an almost complete Tea Set.
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\nOnly a saucer to go, and that’s sitting beside me on my desk right now.
\nThat’s the pitcher at the back, and the lid for the pitcher at the front. The pitcher collapses if I put the lid on it right now, but I’m hoping a good starching will help that.
\nFaina’s scarf hasn’t seen much action lately.
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\nI’ve just finished the second pattern repeat, which is supposed to be the halfway mark. I think I’ll have enough yarn for an extra repeat, because it’s looking a little short right now.
\nNo Twinkie shots for a while, so here’s what we did today. I’m in the middle of making Emily a new long tutu. Twink helped me cut the tulle today.
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\nWell, she thinks she’s helping, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you everyone for all of Em’s lovely birthday wishes. I’m way behind on my emails, so I apologise profusely and thank you this way instead. She had a very good weekend and was spoiled thoroughly. We had a big day out on Sunday, when we went into the city and went to the markets […]<\/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-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}