{"id":685,"date":"2007-06-20T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=685"},"modified":"2007-06-20T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T02:23:22","slug":"685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you everybody for all the kind words and notes and messages about my Grandma, they have been all greatly appreciated.
\nI am a little surprised at quite how hard it has hit me. As I said, it wasn’t unexpected, her health had been failing for some time, and her memory had completely failed her, to the extent that it would upset her greatly that she couldn’t remember anything, and she wasn’t herself at all anymore.
\nHer funeral is tomorrow afternoon, and I’m hoping that the sunshine that is appearing today will hold out until then, although the weather lady is telling me it will rain. Again. Appropriate, but unwanted.
\nIn other news, this is the knitting post I was preparing when the call came to go to the hospital on Saturday night.
\nThe knitting has been suffering of late, mainly due to sewing. In particular, this.
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\nThis is Roxie.
\nShe’s Em’s new dance partner. She has yet to grow hair, a face and some clothing, but she’s been keeping me kind of busy. She’s pretty much the same height as Emily, and we yet to find somewhere to store her in our tiny little house. She took me most of last week to make.
\nLate last week I also got my act together and finished the cream baby cardi.
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\nI attached the white buttons, but included a little bit of yarn and the yellow buttons, in case baby’s mum likes them better.
\nAnd the pick baby cardi has been largely ignored. So much for a quick knit!
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\nThe back is done, the fronts begun.
\nOver the past couple of days, I’ve been knitting, and thinking of Grandma while I knit. I’ve been working on the Lupine Lace socks, but last night I hit a snag.
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\nThey look good, they fit well, I’m happy with them.
\nBut I’m starting to think the yarn is cursed. I got up to this point last night, then decided I’d better weigh the remaining yarn. Yeah.
\nI’ve used 41g of a 100g ball. I’m going to run out of yarn. Dammit. (That’s mild compared to what I said last night).
\nI think it is going to be put aside in a temper tantrum.
\nI’m pretty sure that whatever I end up using it for will be toe-up. I may adapt this pattern, because I like it. Has anyone adapted Monkey<\/a> for toe up yet? Yes, I’m lazy, we’ve been over this.
\nLet’s hope that the yarn is even better after being knit a fourth time.
\nI have also been working on the Shetland Shawl, but pictures later. I have only 35 rows left of the centre square. Woo Hoo! Then I need to knit three more borders, but lets not think of that today.
\nAnd speaking of exqusite, inspiring lace, have you seen missalicefaye<\/a>‘s Wedding Ring Shawl? It’s gorgeous, no other words for it.
\nAnd I feel so much better that it took her seven months to knit. I wish I’d got a copy of the pattern, although after this one it may be some time before I tackle another one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you everybody for all the kind words and notes and messages about my Grandma, they have been all greatly appreciated. I am a little surprised at quite how hard it has hit me. As I said, it wasn’t unexpected, her health had been failing for some time, and her memory had completely failed her, […]<\/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-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}