{"id":915,"date":"2006-10-30T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2006-10-30T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T15:19:00","slug":"im-never-letting-them-out-of-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=915","title":{"rendered":"I’m Never Letting Them Out of the Attic."},"content":{"rendered":"

My friend Kristin<\/a> has made the assertion on more than one occasion that I have illegal immigrant children living in my attic and I make them do my knitting. What can I say? Some people drink; I knit like a fiend. <\/p>\n

I give you the final six blocks of Lizard Ridge:<\/p>\n

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

And after I finished the final block, I began the arduous fun of seaming. As I stated earlier, I’m sewing three blocks into a strip, and then blocking them. After they’re done blocking, they get seamed into the final afghan. The seaming was a Battle Royale – I did my first three following the Principles of Sewing, which in this case, is WRONG. You can’t line up the ridges to their mirror end – these pieces fit together like a puzzle! So where there’s an outward curve, you must line it up with an inward curve. I’m sure this information is in the directions\/pattern? I realized this morning I didn’t bother to look at it again. So I ripped those two seams out. I was using a tapestry needle & trying various stitches – whip stitch and semi-mattress stitch – neither made me happy. Since I’m a pretty speedy slip-stitch crocheter, I tried that out. That looked a bit better, though given the nature of the pattern & the yarn, you will still see the dark purple Cascade peeking through. It’s not like I’ve got a lot of “color concerns” going on, using all these different colors! <\/p>\n

Once I got going on seaming, I couldn’t stop. Here’s the finished pile of three-block strips:<\/p>\n

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

Notes Thus Far & What I’d Do Differently:
-I needed two extra skeins of Noro to finish the afghan; it might be a function of me being a looser knitter.
-There’s been discussion about doing the afghan in panels, not blocks – I think it would work, and obviously would cut down on the amount of time needed to seam. (Though you’d need a bigger space for blocking.) I think you’d want to plan out your color choices a little more if you did it this way.
-I’m still wrestling with the idea of putting a border on this. If I do a border, I fear it will require crocheting, which I’m not a fan of.
-Also wrestling with putting on a backing – possibly wool felt? A backing will require some sort of quilting – I was thinking maybe 6 buttons, placed in the center of each four-square. I’m not sure if I’ll just whip-stitch it to the backing? There’s a lot to figure out if I go the backing route…. or at least I need to get those kids back out of the attic……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My friend Kristin has made the assertion on more than one occasion that I have illegal immigrant children living in my attic and I make them do my knitting. What can I say? Some people drink; I knit like a fiend. I give you the final six blocks of Lizard Ridge: And after I finished […]<\/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\/915"}],"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=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}