{"id":696,"date":"2007-07-18T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=696"},"modified":"2007-07-18T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T02:22:24","slug":"new-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"New Socks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I almost always have a sock on the needles at some point.
\nFor me, socks are my basic knitting. They’re the “I may have to wait at the doctors”, the singing lesson, the car waiting knitting.
\nEasy, mindless, take along knitting with interrupt-able, relatively short rows.
\nAfter tossing aside the Lupine Lace socks due to yarn problems<\/a>, instead of starting new socks, I started Elbac for Em. I usually have 3 projects on the go at once. Socks, Lace and something else, usually a garment. Until I finished Elbac, it was scarf\/shawl\/ Angora Supreme Sweater.
\nBut Elbac is finished, so it’s time for more socks.
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\nSo I cast on my Twisted Flower<\/a> socks.
\nThe ribbing was fine, the first seventeen rows were good. Then I hit row 18.
\nOh my.
\nThis isn’t going to be an easy, take-along, mindless knit.
\nDon’t get me wrong, it’s not impossible. There are two different kinds of cable stitches, and in my cockiness, away I went.
\nI used the wrong freakin’ cable stitch the first cable row.
\nThey are fun, they are satisfying, but they’re most definitely not mindless. And not singing lesson or waiting at the doctors material! I’m sure they’ll get easier as I get the hang of the pattern, but maybe I’ll cast on another pair for mindless knitting time.
\nIn other news, I got mail! Rose Red<\/a> had a blog competition a couple of weeks back, and I was one of the very fortunate winners. My lovely parcel arrived today.
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\nShe’s had trouble with parcels in the past, so to be on the safe side, she also put on address label on the inside, but the main reason I showed this parcel was the ribbon.
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\nHow cool is that?!?
\nAnd inside the parcel.
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\n(Inside a signature ziplock bag<\/a>, of course!)
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\nTwo hanks of Classic Elite Miracle, a 50\/50 alpaca\/tencel blend. It’s gorgeous<\/em>. In fact, it’s right in front of me, in prime squeezability location.
\nThanks Rose Red!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I almost always have a sock on the needles at some point. For me, socks are my basic knitting. They’re the “I may have to wait at the doctors”, the singing lesson, the car waiting knitting. Easy, mindless, take along knitting with interrupt-able, relatively short rows. After tossing aside the Lupine Lace socks due to […]<\/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-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}