{"id":816,"date":"2008-07-13T18:59:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T08:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-07-13T18:59:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-13T08:59:50","slug":"wicked-funk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Funk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a Wicked Funk.<br \/>\nFor the past week, I&#8217;ve rarely managed any knitting. I blame Wicked. Every time I think about sitting down to knit, I start to work on Wicked again, and I get distracted. It really should have been long done by now.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/130708%20006.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/130708%20006.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\/130708%20006-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd yet it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s so close it&#8217;s mocking me.<br \/>\nWicked indeed.<br \/>\nJust half a sleeve to go. As you can see, I&#8217;ve abandoned any plan to do the two sleeves at once on two circs. The tangle was making it slower, not faster. And if I sat my butt on the lounge right now and knit, I&#8217;d have it done tonight.<br \/>\nIt might happen.<br \/>\nI had hoped to have it finished to wear when we go away on Tuesday. We&#8217;re off to Melbourne for a few days, then next weekend, I&#8217;m abandoning David and Emily in Melbourne, and heading to Bendigo for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheepshow.com\/\">Australian Sheep and Wool Show<\/a> with Meaghan from <a href=\"http:\/\/yarnsonline.com.au\/\">Yarns Online<\/a> for another knitty fibrefest weekend.<br \/>\nEven if I finish Wicked tonight, the weather is cold and cloudy, and I&#8217;m fairly sure it wouldn&#8217;t be dry in time. Although, I&#8217;m over it, and not at all sure I&#8217;d want to wear it anyway!<br \/>\nThe only other thing I&#8217;ve been working on is the Patonyle socks, but that news isn&#8217;t good either.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/130708%20002.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/130708%20002.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\/130708%20002-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAfter nearly three weeks, that&#8217;s as far as I&#8217;d gotten. I just wasn&#8217;t feeling the love, so they are no more. But they are being restarted into something I love more.<br \/>\nI am happy to report that the Patonyle stands up to a ripping very well!<br \/>\nAnd there was lace started at Knitting Camp two weeks ago, but I haven&#8217;t touched it. I just know that if I do, WIcked will never, ever be finished!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a Wicked Funk. For the past week, I&#8217;ve rarely managed any knitting. I blame Wicked. Every time I think about sitting down to knit, I start to work on Wicked again, and I get distracted. It really should have been long done by now. And yet it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s so close it&#8217;s mocking [&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-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}