{"id":679,"date":"2007-06-02T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T06:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=679"},"modified":"2007-06-02T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T06:35:04","slug":"679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you everyone for the lovely birthday wishes!
\nWe did enjoy our evening, especially dessert.
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\nChocolate Chip Paradise Pie. Divine. You can see I had to taste it before I took the picture. No patience.
\nIt’s Saturday, and I’m actually showing todays sky on time.
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\nWarmish and sunny. Twinkie and I had our morning ritual, where I sit on the back step and she plays nearby in the sun.
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\nOr just basks.
\nWe hung my new wall sconce this morning.
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\nYes, there’s a polar bear hanging onto my bed. You don’t have one?
\nHere’s a better picture of the sconce.
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\nIsn’t it beautiful?
\nThe knitting continues to plod along. The Shetland Shawl has grown a little.
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\nYou can see the colour change in the yarn pretty well in this picture.
\nI had always considered myself to be a pretty fast knitter. This shawl is starting to convince me otherwise. I began it at our knitting exhibition, seven weeks ago. I’m a little more than a quarter of the way along. That means that this could take me six months or more. If I’d known that at the start, I may never have started it.
\nDid I mention that I have no patience?
\nOf course, the longer it takes, the more frustrated I feel, and the more I want to cast on for something new. Something quick<\/em>.
\nSpeaking of quick, the baby cardi is coming along nicely.
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\nIt’s badly in need of a blocking.
\nThe pattern is knit in one piece to the armholes, then seperated for fronts and backs. As I mentioned a few posts back, I used a three needle bind off on the shoulders rather than seaming, and I’ve grafted the neckband at the back, and sewn it down.
\nI don’t like the way the pattern for the sleeves is written, so I need to do some tweaking. The pattern says to pick up x number of stitches in the armhole, and knit down to the cuffs. I have no problem with that, but it actually says “Sew shoulder seams, then pick up stitches around armhole. Do not<\/em> join in the round, work back and forth in rows”. What the?
\nWhy on earth would you pick up stitches around the armhole in the round, then work back and forth in rows?
\nNot a chance, baby, I’m rewriting it to avoid seaming it.
\nAnd to finish, here’s another picture of Twink from this morning just becasue I liked it.
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Thank you everyone for the lovely birthday wishes! We did enjoy our evening, especially dessert. Chocolate Chip Paradise Pie. Divine. You can see I had to taste it before I took the picture. No patience. It’s Saturday, and I’m actually showing todays sky on time. Warmish and sunny. Twinkie and I had our morning ritual, […]<\/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-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","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=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}