{"id":727,"date":"2007-10-06T19:55:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=727"},"modified":"2007-10-06T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T09:55:08","slug":"its-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=727","title":{"rendered":"It’s Saturday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday. And you know what that means?
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\nSky, blue, beautiful, hot<\/em>. Well, it was hot, then the wind picked up and cooled it down again.
\nIt also means that the school holidays are half over. Yay! I love my kid, really, I do, but she drives me insane. And it’s a mutual feeling.
\nShe had her first date this week. Yes, all the dramas are coming to a head. The boy she has had a crush on has finally asked her out, and she’s up there on Cloud 9. But I’m mean and nasty and overprotective, and ruining her life and so on and so forth.
\nSo a compromise was reached. They went to the movies, during the daytime, with his little sister and two young cousins, and his mum took them and went shopping while all the kids watched the movie.
\nEmily called me to say they were done, but when I arrived to pick her up they decided to go for ice cream, leaving me to my own devices. At which point she bumped into Ailsa<\/a> and family, fortunately (for me) finding me a coffee date to kill time and unfortunately (for herself) having to introduce her boyfriend. (Ailsa, you haven’t scared him off. Thanks, anyway)
\nPoor kid then proceeded to run into my sister and niece and had to introduce him to them, too. I think she’s learning that you can’t hide around here! And no, they didn’t scare him off either. I think he’s pretty keen!
\nHowever, the date went well, and she’s happy. (She wouldn’t let me take a picture for the blog. And she calls me<\/em> mean! \ud83d\ude09
\nI got to see Ailsa’s test knit pattern<\/a> in person, and it looks gorgeous! I missed out on seeing the nail file, though.
\nTime for knitting updates?
\nHanging Garden. Still loving it.
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\nFive repeats down. The pattern calls for fourteen repeats, but we’ll see how we go. I may get bored before that.
\nThe gloves.
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\nGrowing nicely. And it’s a good thing, because I am<\/em> getting somewhat bored with these.
\nAnd the Slinky Socks.
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\nThese are my problem child, knitwise. They just aren’t playing nicely. I had a long train trip yesterday, so I took them along.
\nI got up to the afterthought heel bit, and had no waste yarn with me. So I had to use my keys to hack off a length of yarn from the start of the ball.
\nI’m liking the pattern though. It’s like a horizontal rib. Here’s how it looks all stretched out.
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\nClever, clever. I’m still using two circs, but I can’t say I’m loving it. I will finish the sock to give the technique a fair go, but I think I’ll be back to the dpns after that.
\nI’m a little worried about the afterthought heel. How do you decide when to start the toe if you can’t try on the sock?
\nI’m caught up on my housework. Twinkie helped with the sweeping.
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\nShe hates to be brushed, but she loves the hand broom. Every time it comes out, she sits in the mess I’m trying to sweep until she gets swept too.
\nLook at that cute little mouth.
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\nAawwww.
\nAnyway, the house is clean, I’m taking advantage and knitting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday. And you know what that means? Sky, blue, beautiful, hot. Well, it was hot, then the wind picked up and cooled it down again. It also means that the school holidays are half over. Yay! I love my kid, really, I do, but she drives me insane. And it’s a mutual feeling. She had […]<\/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-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}