{"id":1195,"date":"2007-11-20T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2007-11-20T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:23:00","slug":"weve-come-a-long-way-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1195","title":{"rendered":"We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby…."},"content":{"rendered":"

I could spend time complaining about the “joy” that is this week, but I’ll spare you. At least for today.
Today? I am going to pull a couple knitting skeletons out of the closet and show you just how far I’ve come as a knitter over the years. Since I learned as a little girl, and didn’t do much with it until I was re-taught by our foreign exchange student, most projects consisted of items based on the shape “rectangle”. Sweaters (with drop sleeves), scarves, even hats. I finally learned to knit in the round, and then one winter, decided I needed to learn how to knit socks. I believe this would be the first year I knew JWo. Because you don’t make a boyfriend a sweater, you make him hats, and scarves, and if you really find yourself smitten, you tackle those double points and make him some hugs for his feet: socks. <\/p>\n

My first sock does not have a mate. It is still around, somewhere, in all its badness and glory. I taught myself from a Threads techniques compilation, and let me tell you what, if you ever want to learn how to knit socks? HAVE SOMEONE TEACH YOU. Or I suppose, you can use one of those books that’s all about how to knit socks. My way? The hard way. But again, that’s also how I roll.<\/p>\n

So I decided to make JWo some socks. To keep his feet warm, in his little, minimally-heated home, 72 miles away from me. And he told me he would treasure them forever. God love him.<\/p>\n

\"Shrek-ilicious<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you understand how large those are? Knit out of Lion Brand Thick & Quick Wool? I could put my feet in there WITH his and we’d still have room to store bagels, loose change, and a curling iron. Sweet lord almighty. However, I did at least have the ability at this point to make them match.<\/p>\n

Then, I knit myself these bad boys:<\/p>\n

\"Enormous!<\/a><\/p>\n

Oh yeah! I put the yardstick in for reference. I even did LEG SHAPING for my shapely calves. Uh-huh. Look out, all you bitches with your 0’s and 1’s, I knit these mo-fo’s on 10.5 DPNs. With shaping.<\/p>\n

Both pairs went into the trash last night. Their horrendousness recorded for posterity with the camera, but they can no longer be in the same space as things like this:<\/p>\n

\"Baby<\/a><\/p>\n

Baby Tulip Cardigan, for a v. special baby….
\"Stop<\/a>
(I owe her a sweater for all the pictures I took of her, on her first day here!)<\/p>\n

or even this –<\/p>\n

\"Knitted<\/a><\/p>\n

A knitted face mask for JWo on his biting cold duck hunts… (the first one I knit is about to be mailed, so it can go to a soldier in need<\/a>….)(It just irks me that we are spending ALL this money fighting these wars and yet our volunteers who are on the front lines aren’t properly equipped. It’s a nightmare!)<\/p>\n

And of course, I’ve figured out how to knit socks. I’ve put up pictures every time I’ve finished a pair, and I have enough sock yarn to um, take me into the twilight years, so I plan to keep on knitting them….. I still am a loose knitter, and I don’t pay loads of attention to oh, uh, “GAUGE” and whatnot, so I just knit on the tiniest needles I can stand. But we discovered those shocking socks when James was going through a storage box, and it was a humor-horror moment for me. It’s good to be reminded sometimes of how far we’ve come, but to see the progress, we have to look at where we were and sometimes – it just ain’t pretty. Or even wearable. But you can laugh and notice the small things (leg shaping!) and keep on improving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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