{"id":880,"date":"2008-12-21T17:01:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T07:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=880"},"modified":"2008-12-21T17:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T07:01:35","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you everybody, for all the lovely comments and emails, they were all very much appreciated.
\nWe have a new addition to our household. Meet Squeak!
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\nOn Wednesday we headed down to Wollongong for a rare midweek SnB, because the lovely Charmaine<\/a> was on a flying visit home from Abu Dhabi. On the way home we stopped by the pet store to pick up a few necessaries for Twinkie.
\nThen Emily spotted the bird. And she pleaded, begged and made puppy eyes at me until he came home with us. (Actually, we don’t know yet if it’s a he\/she, but I’m just in the habit of calling budgies “He” because our last one was a he.) It got named “Squeak” because of the noise he made when the lady caught him for us.
\nHow does Twink feel about the new addition? See for yourself.
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\nThat was the first day, but she seems to just ignore the presence of the bird now. She’s been a little more affectionate than normal, so it’s not all bad!
\nOn to the knitting! Tangled Yoke is finished, apart from the blocking and buttons.
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\nI’m having some difficulty deciding on the buttons. I didn’t have the cardigan with me when I got the buttons, and seeing as they were $1 each, I didn’t want to buy 9 of each and waste $9, so I got just one of each. And now I can’t decide, I like both.
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\nThe darker ones are a little more subtle, but the lighter ones are nice, too. Opinions?
\nAnd seeing as I finished Tangled Yoke, I decided to make a little something for a pregnant friend of the family. Baby knitwear in summer here in Australia isn’t always practical, so I’ve become rather enamoured of Ysolda’s<\/a> toys<\/a>. This time, I’m making Otto.
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\nApart from being insanely cute, these toys are quick to knit up, and gauge isn’t really an issue. They can be somewhat fiddly though! So far I’ve knit Elijah and Sophie, so this is the third one. They make nice gifts when you don’t know the sex of the baby, and when the weather isn’t really suitable for knitwear either. I’ve used Sublime Cashmere Merino Silk DK for all three, and it makes lovely soft cuddly toys!
\nAnd in other news, Emily got David to paint her nails.
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\nSome things just need to be documented!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you everybody, for all the lovely comments and emails, they were all very much appreciated. We have a new addition to our household. Meet Squeak! On Wednesday we headed down to Wollongong for a rare midweek SnB, because the lovely Charmaine was on a flying visit home from Abu Dhabi. On the way home […]<\/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-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}