{"id":796,"date":"2008-05-04T21:32:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T11:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-05-04T21:32:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T11:32:44","slug":"the-rabbit-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"The rabbit strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having finished Em&#8217;s jumper\/sweater, I&#8217;d promised David that I&#8217;d knit him a vest. Having nothing suitable in the stash, on Friday I headed down to Daisy Designs in Wollongong to get something. Had a lovely knitting day, and picked up a pile of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patons.biz\/colour_range.asp?yarnid=2\">Patons Jet<\/a> in green for the vest.<br \/>\nI brought home the nice paper bag full of yarn, and put it at the end of the sofa, ready to be cast on.<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t get around to it on Friday night or yesterday, and last night we went out for dinner. Arriving home, we settled in and I realised that I could hear a suspicious rustling noise.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20001.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20001.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\/040508%20001-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTwinkie had found the paper bag.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20004.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20004.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\/040508%20004-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nNo yarn was harmed in this process.<br \/>\nA few labels were ripped, but it&#8217;s not the yarn she&#8217;s interested in, thankfully.<br \/>\nLast night I cast on the vest, after making a few adjustments to the pattern. I decided to omit the seams and knit it in the round, which wasn&#8217;t any hassle, but casting on 192 stitches without twisting them turned into a mini drama, as did the gigantic knot in the middle of the ball.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20005.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/040508%20005.html','popup','width=638,height=850,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\/040508%20005-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nBut all is now well, and the vest is cast on, no thanks to Twinkie, or the knot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having finished Em&#8217;s jumper\/sweater, I&#8217;d promised David that I&#8217;d knit him a vest. Having nothing suitable in the stash, on Friday I headed down to Daisy Designs in Wollongong to get something. Had a lovely knitting day, and picked up a pile of Patons Jet in green for the vest. I brought home the nice [&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-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}