{"id":733,"date":"2007-10-21T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T05:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=733"},"modified":"2007-10-21T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T05:48:51","slug":"and-sometimes-it-shrinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"And sometimes, it shrinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have worked on the Hemlock Ring Blanket this weekend. Not non-stop, but a lot.<br \/>\nBut it hasn&#8217;t grown much at all.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3400.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3400.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3400-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nLast night, I began row 92, which is a pattern row. There I was, merrily knitting along, when I suddenly realised that I had far too many stitches in just one of the repeats.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d gotten a bit cocky on the last couple of rows, so I&#8217;d knitted along without bothering to count too much. And I stuffed it up. So badly that I couldn&#8217;t fudge it and fix it up.<br \/>\nI had to rip back 10 rows.<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t sound like much, does it? How about when it&#8217;s around 400 stitches per round? I sat up until 1am, and have only just now, at 3pm, got back up to row 93. And started the second hank.<br \/>\nBut I had to stop, it&#8217;s 32.5C right now, and I can&#8217;t bear having it in my lap any longer!<br \/>\nBut I do have other knitting news.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3399.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3399.html','popup','width=950,height=713,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3399-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nLook Ma, no needles! Blocking tomorrow, with my new blocking wires. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have worked on the Hemlock Ring Blanket this weekend. Not non-stop, but a lot. But it hasn&#8217;t grown much at all. Last night, I began row 92, which is a pattern row. There I was, merrily knitting along, when I suddenly realised that I had far too many stitches in just one of the [&hellip;]<\/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-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","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=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}