{"id":962,"date":"2009-11-14T16:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T06:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=962"},"modified":"2009-11-14T16:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T06:36:33","slug":"hopeful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So lately, 90% of my knitting time has been focused on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/gail-aka-nightsongs\">Gail<\/a>.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m a little worried. I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-kim.com\/rose-kimknits\/\">Rose-Kim Knits<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rose-kim.com\/blogpics\/shawl%20percentage.xls\">shawl progress calculator<\/a>, I worked out how much of the shawl I&#8217;ve done, then I weighed my yarn.<br \/>\nAnd I definitely don&#8217;t have enough yarn to do the full seven repeats. Not a huge problem, I&#8217;ll just do the six repeats and then finish with the edging pattern.<br \/>\nBut I&#8217;m worried it&#8217;s going to be small.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/DSCF1728.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/DSCF1728.html','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/DSCF1728-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nLike, really small! It&#8217;s a bit squished up right now, and blocking will help it grow at least a little bit, so I&#8217;m hopeful all will be well.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m in somewhat of a hurry, because I got this yesterday.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/DSCF1730.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/DSCF1730.html','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/DSCF1730-thumb.JPG\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nYummy, squishy, gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/knitabulous\">Knitabulous<\/a> Fiftyfifty (wool\/silk). This wants to be  a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lacy-kerchief-scarf\">Lacy Kerchief Scarf<\/a>. Like, <em>now<\/em>. Despite the 30C+ weather.<br \/>\nCap shawl? What cap shawl??<br \/>\nAnd for Janet, Twinkie got a summer grooming today. She hates being groomed. We need to chase her, catch her and flop her on her back to bliss her out so that it can be done.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/141109%20006.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/141109%20006.html','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/141109%20006-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAnd if you get her in exactly the right position, she looks like a dog playing dead.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/141109%20005.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/141109%20005.html','popup','width=640,height=480,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\/141109%20005-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\n(No bunnies were hurt in this process. Except maybe their dignity!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So lately, 90% of my knitting time has been focused on Gail. And I&#8217;m a little worried. I&#8217;ve used Rose-Kim Knits shawl progress calculator, I worked out how much of the shawl I&#8217;ve done, then I weighed my yarn. And I definitely don&#8217;t have enough yarn to do the full seven repeats. Not a huge [&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-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","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=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}