{"id":521,"date":"2005-09-20T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2005-09-20T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T12:13:00","slug":"we-interrupt-this-blog-for-actual-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"We Interrupt This Blog For Actual Knitting."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yeah, baby. There are people out there with &#8220;knitting blogs&#8221;, and hell, the TITLE of my blog is about knitting, but let&#8217;s not sugar coat it people. I enjoy the blog for the bitching and the kvetching and the shouting and the laughing, and sometimes I give you knitting updates. So today I give you some updating on how I do spend a lot of my time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/1600\/100_0374.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/320\/100_0374.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are socks for JWo; custom-fit, toe-up, using Lucy Neatby&#8217;s little square toe. I did not like the idea for leaving the heel until the end, so I abandoned the pattern for hodge-podging my own. The yarn is Regia 100g, and it came in one big ball. I always do my socks at the same time! Two socks on two circs, it&#8217;s the way that works for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/1600\/100_0375.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/320\/100_0375.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are socks for me, and they knit up SuperFast. I don&#8217;t know why!  They&#8217;re a little snug, but they feel like warm wooly feet hugs, so I&#8217;m pleased. My feet like to be hugged. The yarn is Parade, from Knit Picks, color Plum. It&#8217;s sport weight, and I got some in Pumpkin Patch for socks for James! I see from the website that they re-named it to &#8220;forest&#8221;. Whatever, I have the label that calls it punkin patch and there is no better-named yarn for my Giant Punkin Grower! The pattern is Lucy Neatby&#8217;s Mermaid Sock, with the wavy cuff. The twisted rib was really fun, and I think contributed to why it went so quickly. The self-striping made it look like I was making entrelac socks, but really, it&#8217;s a simple pattern with the stitch &#038; the yarn making the magic. Also, the big short-row heel was awesome. Loved it. No gaping holes, no doing slip stitches, just a cushy garter stitch. I&#8217;ll be using that heel again! If you like to knit socks, her book &#8220;Cool Socks, Warm Feet&#8221; is a must-have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/1600\/100_0376.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5985\/480\/320\/100_0376.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the start of my clapotis. I worked on it on &#038; off in the car yesterday; it at least made the drive go faster! I managed to get more stitches between the markers than I think is called for? And I. Don&#8217;t. Care. It&#8217;s a scarf, it&#8217;s adjustable, and I&#8217;m capable of adapting the pattern to my mistakes! So we&#8217;ll see how I feel about it when it&#8217;s done! LOL! I&#8217;m using an extremely soft sock yarn from Knit Picks, Sock Landscapes, in color Rocky Mountain Dusk. I have four skeins of it (so I&#8217;ve got more yardage to play with as I &#8220;adjust&#8221; this pattern), and the Clapotis will cost me $16, vs. the $90 I&#8217;d pay to use the called-for Lion &#038; Lamb. Sigh. Yes, I realize I&#8217;m not knitting with silk\/wool in an exquisite colorway&#8230;.and yes, I&#8217;m using Hello Kitty &#038; Spongebob Squarepants shoe charms for some of my stitch markers. I&#8217;m just a Knitta With Attitude. Look for my hip-hop album to drop next year&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, yeah, baby. There are people out there with &#8220;knitting blogs&#8221;, and hell, the TITLE of my blog is about knitting, but let&#8217;s not sugar coat it people. I enjoy the blog for the bitching and the kvetching and the shouting and the laughing, and sometimes I give you knitting updates. So today I give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}