{"id":971,"date":"2009-12-21T20:32:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=971"},"modified":"2009-12-21T20:32:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T10:32:33","slug":"road-tripping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Road Tripping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So dark and early tomorrow morning (just 6.5 hours from now), we&#8217;re road tripping for Christmas. We&#8217;re off to sunny Queensland to visit the in-laws. Then a few days on the Gold Coast before coming home via <a href=\"http:\/\/nundle.info\/nundle\/\">Nundle<\/a> (and the Wool Mill).<br \/>\nThe Lacy Kerchief is finished, but not yet blocked. The silly season has gotten the better of me over the past few days, I fear. I did however, start something new.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/211209%20004.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/211209%20004.html','popup','width=800,height=600,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\/211209%20004-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nFunny, after Venezia, working on a garment in just one colour seems so fast, even when it&#8217;s 4ply (fingering) on 2.75mm needles!<br \/>\nThis is the start of the gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimhargreaves.co.uk\/acatalog\/copy_of_ROSA.html\">Rosa<\/a> by Kim Hargreaves. The pattern calls for Rowan Cashsoft 4ply, but I&#8217;m substituting Rowan 4ply soft in Tea Rose.<br \/>\nThis is my road knitting &#8211; 1,000km each way, so hopefully there&#8217;ll be plenty done by the time I get back.<br \/>\nI did pull the Cap Shawl out of hibernation last night, and did 3 rounds on it, but I remember why it&#8217;s been in hibernation now. It&#8217;s boring! I had planned for it to go into the Easter Show, and maybe it will &#8211; not sure what year though!<br \/>\nI also had forgotten to mention the wonderful last sock club package in this round from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlefood.co.nz\/\">Needlefood<\/a>!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/081209%20018.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/081209%20018.html','popup','width=800,height=600,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\/081209%20018-thumb.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nChocolate, and yarn in a gorgeous colour!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/081209%20019.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/archives\/081209%20019.html','popup','width=600,height=800,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\/081209%20019-thumb.jpg\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nAs well as a cute little pouch, stitch markers, a sock pattern and a handy note with kitchener instructions. It&#8217;s a great sock club! If you&#8217;re interested in signing up, the next round will open up in mid\/late January. If you sign up for the newsletter at the website, you&#8217;ll get a heads-up when it&#8217;s about to happen!<br \/>\nIf I&#8217;m not back here before Christmas, (I&#8217;ll be popping in on Ravelry, and on my email and twitter &#8211; I love my iPhone!)  I wish you all a wonderful day with family and\/or friends, with much love and comfort, I hope you enjoy the silly season, even if you don&#8217;t celebrate!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So dark and early tomorrow morning (just 6.5 hours from now), we&#8217;re road tripping for Christmas. We&#8217;re off to sunny Queensland to visit the in-laws. Then a few days on the Gold Coast before coming home via Nundle (and the Wool Mill). The Lacy Kerchief is finished, but not yet blocked. The silly season has [&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-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}