{"id":912,"date":"2009-04-10T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-04-10T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T11:20:57","slug":"april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I ever glad for a long weekend! Today is Good Friday, and here in Australia, it’s the first day of a four day weekend. Hallelujah!
\nMonday night I started to lose my voice. Tuesday night at the Easter Show Arts Preview, I could barely talk, and I’ve been feeling cruddy ever since.
\nThe Arts Preview was great fun, though! Many bloggers and ravellers there, like Ailsa<\/a>, Kris<\/a>, Mary-Helen<\/a>, Sally<\/a>, Julie<\/a>, Lien<\/a> and Katie<\/a> amongst others.
\nUnfortunately, my winning streak ground to a halt. I did get a Second place in the Fair Isle for Autumn Rose, but no other places. Ailsa <\/a>however, got four places on her four entries, and Sheridan<\/a> got two Highly Commendeds for her two entries. Lots of places for lots of Ravellers, the displays are much better this year than last.
\nSo amongst feeling like crap, and boundless other things sucking up my time, there has been knitting. Nearly all of my knitting time has gone into the Aeolian shawl<\/a>.
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\nI’m really enjoying it, although it’s pretty slow going, mainly because I’m stopping every 10 stitches or so to place a bead, which really slows the whole thing down.
\nThe yarn I’m using is Mama Blue Silk Lace in “Urchin”, and the beads are just 8\/0 glass seed beads that I picked up on eBay.
\nToday, something very, very rare happened. I baked. Trust me, this is much more momentous than it sounds.
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\nBanana bread. And it’s good<\/em>.
\nTwinkie would like you all to know she’s being treated in the manner to which she has become accustomed.
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\nAnd if she feels she isn’t being treated appropriately, she just forces us to do her bidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am I ever glad for a long weekend! Today is Good Friday, and here in Australia, it’s the first day of a four day weekend. Hallelujah! Monday night I started to lose my voice. Tuesday night at the Easter Show Arts Preview, I could barely talk, and I’ve been feeling cruddy ever since. The Arts […]<\/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-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","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=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}