{"id":889,"date":"2009-01-25T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=889"},"modified":"2009-01-25T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-25T08:38:18","slug":"the-weather-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=889","title":{"rendered":"The weather, again."},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m harping on about the weather again, because it’s the only excuse I have for not having much knitting. But it’s been hot. All week. It all came to a head yesterday, when the temperature topped 42C in Sydney. That’d be 107.6f for you US readers.
\nWe escaped and ran away to the beach where Emily proceeded to fib about the correct application of sunscreen, and came home looking like an overcooked lobster. With sunstroke. Because I’m just her mother, and what would I know? Today she’s paying the price.
\nI’ve begun a sleeve for Autumn Rose, and that’s about the sum total of the knitting that’s occurred. In other knitting news, I put my name into The Loopy Ewe<\/a> sock club lottery again this year. And yet again, I missed out. I was pretty bummed about it again. I mean, who doesn’t like the idea of a surprise package arriving in the mailbox, complete with sock yarn, a pattern and some fun extras too? But it seems to be a club I’m not meant to be a member of. I felt a bit dejected and unwanted at first, but then I decided to copy a couple of my favourite<\/a> bloggers<\/a>. I’m going to have my own Personal Sock Club this year. It’ll be so exclusive that I’ll be the only one in it! And there’s going to be some yummy, yummy yarns and some pretty nice patterns, too. (No fun surprises though, it’s a bit hard to surprise yourself, I’ve found!) I noticed that this concept is going around – I saw it on another blog<\/a> I read this morning, too.
\nSo, I’ve taken 11 sock yarns at random from the stash, spent a few hours matching them up with sock patterns from my queue, and made my sock club kits.
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\nI’ve already finished one pair of socks this year, and I started another this week, so I’m hoping I’ll get to all of these this year. I’m not telling what’s inside, so all of you can be surprised when I open a package. Hopefully I’ll forget what I’ve packaged up too.
\nThe packages have been put up out of Twinkie’s reach, because she seems to have a thing for paper bags containing yarn.
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\nThe curiosity may have been aroused, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m harping on about the weather again, because it’s the only excuse I have for not having much knitting. But it’s been hot. All week. It all came to a head yesterday, when the temperature topped 42C in Sydney. That’d be 107.6f for you US readers. We escaped and ran away to the beach […]<\/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-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}