{"id":763,"date":"2008-02-01T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T03:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=763"},"modified":"2008-02-01T13:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T03:37:12","slug":"finally-school-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"Finally, school is back"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love Em to bits. But I sure am glad that school finally went back after our extended summer holiday yesterday.
\nShe’s going to be 15 next month, and yet she still takes up a not-inconsiderable amount of my time and attention. Time and attention that I could spend knitting. After six weeks of holidays, we’re each happy to get back to our respective schedules. Or lack thereof!
\nSo yesterday, I planted my butt on the couch and I knit. But then I had to stop, because it got far too hot and I couldn’t bear it any more. But today is much cooler, so I got going on the knitting again.
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\nAnd the Shetland shawl is flying! I’m hoping that this birder will be done and grafted this weekend. I probably shouldn’t have said that. Sssh, don’t tell it, or something bad will happen.
\nSo let’s change the subject.
\nJust in time for the 30C+ weather we’ve been having, I finished Em’s So Called Scarf<\/a>.
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\nPerfect for a heatwave with a cotton sundress! (She didn’t keep it on for long, trust me)
\nThe yarn is Lorna’s Lace Shepherd Worsted<\/a> in Child’s Play, purchased from The Point Knitting Cafe<\/a> while we were in New York.
\nThis really is a great pattern for variegated yarn, although if you look at this picture, you can see that the colours aren’t exactly random, and there’s an odd sort of cross hatch pattern going on.
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\nI like it! The pattern is easy to remember, and travelled a lot with us while we were driving around in the USA. I love the yarn, too. It’s soft and not at all scratchy, but it’s very loosely spun, and did have a bit of a tendency to split.
\nI love to knit a sweater or cardi from it, though!
\nHopefully, my next post will feature a three bordered Shetland shawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Em to bits. But I sure am glad that school finally went back after our extended summer holiday yesterday. She’s going to be 15 next month, and yet she still takes up a not-inconsiderable amount of my time and attention. Time and attention that I could spend knitting. After six weeks of holidays, […]<\/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-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}