{"id":807,"date":"2008-06-09T19:52:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T09:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=807"},"modified":"2008-06-09T19:52:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T09:52:51","slug":"long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love long weekends, but they never seem to feel any longer than a regular weekend. Why is that?<br \/>\nKitri has been captivating me, and number one is done.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20013.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20013.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\/090608%20013-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s pretty just laying there, but it looks even better on.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20015.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20015.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\/090608%20015-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAs modelled by Em. She ain&#8217;t getting them though, they&#8217;re mine, mine, MINE!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20014.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20014.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\/090608%20014-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;ve finished the pair, I&#8217;ll block the lace cuff out. I&#8217;m not sure that my feet are worthy of these socks though. Maybe I&#8217;ll just frame them!<br \/>\nI did finish Gretel, and it&#8217;s now blocking. I did not run out of yarn, but it was a <em>very<\/em> close call. Here&#8217;s my leftovers.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20001.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%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\/090608%20001-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nI got a little panicky towards the end, and had to knit really fast to beat the end of the yarn. Don&#8217;t knock it, it worked! (And who hasn&#8217;t been there?)<br \/>\nAnd finally, Spirit is blocked, and ready for seaming. I was a little worried about using the boucle yarn to seam the sweater, but Kerry from my Stitch n Bitch group gave me an excellent solution.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20011.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/090608%20011.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\/090608%20011-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nTapestry wool! 79c a skein, and it&#8217;s a perfect colour match. Now, just the seaming to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love long weekends, but they never seem to feel any longer than a regular weekend. Why is that? Kitri has been captivating me, and number one is done. It&#8217;s pretty just laying there, but it looks even better on. As modelled by Em. She ain&#8217;t getting them though, they&#8217;re mine, mine, MINE! When I&#8217;ve [&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-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}