{"id":737,"date":"2007-11-02T20:24:37","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=737"},"modified":"2007-11-02T20:24:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T10:24:37","slug":"stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"Stop the world I want to get off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slow down!<br \/>\nRight now, everything, slow down, or I&#8217;m going to have a freakin&#8217; temper tantrum. Or something.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m having one of those weeks, where everyone I have any contact with seems to want something from me, where my list of tasks awaiting my attention just gets longer and longer, no matter how much I do, and nothing is coming out the way I expect.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m just having one of those weeks.<br \/>\nAnd to top it all off today we&#8217;ve reached our broadband limit and our speed has been throttled. I&#8217;m surfing the internet in slow motion. And I don&#8217;t like it!<br \/>\nNot a lot of knitting has been achieved this week. I did finally finish the Stupid Slinky Socks last Friday. I&#8217;ve been waiting to get a picture of the Empress wearing them, but it just hasn&#8217;t happened. (Back to that flat out thing). So I gave up and took a picture on the sock blockers.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3445.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3445.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_3445-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re fraternal twins, and I&#8217;m just glad that they&#8217;re finished. The first one was done on two circs, which I detested. I had trouble with the foot length, the toe and the afterthought heel.<br \/>\nThe second one went much more smoothly, thankfully!<br \/>\nSpecs<br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magknits.com\/Apr06\/patterns\/slinky.htm\">Slinky Socks<\/a> by Rae Blackledge, from MagKnits.<br \/>\nNeedles: 2mm. Two circs on the first sock, dpns on the second. Different gauge for each method!<br \/>\nYarn: Four Seasons Hot Socks, with KnitPicks Essential for the toes and the heels.<br \/>\nAnd now they&#8217;re done, I&#8217;m over them.<br \/>\nI did manage to finish the Hemlock Ring Blanket. It took 4 hours to cast off, all of which was done during Em&#8217;s dance lessons. But it isn&#8217;t very attractive yet.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3444.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/100_3444.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_3444-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nYet to be blocked. The only space I have big enough to block it is my bed. And it&#8217;s so thick and heavy, I&#8217;m going to have to wait for a nice hot, dry day. Today it rained, so no blocking.<br \/>\nApart from that, all I&#8217;ve managed all week is one repeat (8 rows) of Nicole. So now I&#8217;m heading to my sofa, where I&#8217;m going to spend the rest of the night, with my feet up and Nicole in my lap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow down! Right now, everything, slow down, or I&#8217;m going to have a freakin&#8217; temper tantrum. Or something. I&#8217;m having one of those weeks, where everyone I have any contact with seems to want something from me, where my list of tasks awaiting my attention just gets longer and longer, no matter how much I [&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-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}