{"id":730,"date":"2007-10-14T19:23:22","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T09:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=730"},"modified":"2007-10-14T19:23:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T09:23:22","slug":"a-great-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"A great weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday!
\nLara<\/a> and Mark had their house warming and baby shower. The weather was lovely, although it got a bit cool later in the afternoon, and I got to finally meet and chat with other Sydney knitbloggers like Celia<\/a>, Lien<\/a>, Kate<\/a> and Sally<\/a> among others.
\nAnd we got to play with bunnies! And a Cocky and some chooks, too.
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\nWe met Jasper for the first time.
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\nEmily loves Custard. (And thought about bunnynapping him!). In the background, you can see Cocky watching over all the antics. But we didn’t leave Cocky out!
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\nAnd we can’t forget Liza and Barbara.
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\nLara is going to be Twinkie’s foster mother while we’re visiting the USA. Looks like a nice place for a bunny holiday, doesn’t it?
\nWhile we were there, I worked a little on the Hanging Garden Stole.
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\nUp to the ninth repeat now.
\nAnd on the Stupid Slinky Sock. I was a bit uncertain about starting the toe and this whole afterthought heel caper.
\nI took Terri’s<\/a> advice, and worked the foot so that it was about 4″ short of the total foot length from the waste yarn for the heel opening. But I was still a bit unsure, so instead of starting the toe, I put the foot stitches on to two dpns to hold, and undid the waste yarn, putting the heel stitches on the two circs.
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\nFor the heel and toe, I’m using a solid yarn. In this case, it’s Knitpicks Essential in Petunia. I worked the heel, then tried it on Em.
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\nBy the way, why didn’t anyone warn me that an afterthought heel requires grafting? Grafting twice on one sock is kinda pushing the friendship!
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\nI’m not keen on the heel in the pattern. Is it just me, or is it a bit pointy? Anyway, at this point, I should have checked the length of the foot, but I was more preoccupied with the pointiness of the heel.
\nSo at Lara’s, I started the toe. The pattern calls for a star toe, so I blithely followed along. I didn’t finish it until I got home last night.
\nI ended up with a pointy toe and<\/em> a pointy heel. I didn’t take a picture, because I don’t like nighttime pictures on my camera.
\nSo I ripped out the toe, and part of the heel. I did a standard toe, and I shortened and rounded off the heel a bit, and then tried the sock on Em. (After kitchenering the toe and the redone heel!)
\nHere’s where I noticed that I should have checked the length of the foot. It was too short.
\nSo I ripped out the toe, lengthened the foot, and did the freakin’ stupid toe again.
\nAnd grafted it. Again<\/em>.
\nThis time, it fit.
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\nLucky, because I was ready to toss it.
\nBetween the trauma of two circs, pointy heels, short feet, three toes and four graftings, this sock easily tops my “Worst sock ever” list.
\nBut sock number two?
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\nI feel better already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a lovely afternoon yesterday! Lara and Mark had their house warming and baby shower. The weather was lovely, although it got a bit cool later in the afternoon, and I got to finally meet and chat with other Sydney knitbloggers like Celia, Lien, Kate and Sally among others. And we got to play […]<\/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-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}