{"id":1937,"date":"2011-05-04T12:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2011-05-04T12:55:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T12:55:25","slug":"the-never-ending-sock-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"The never-ending sock saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. I am still knitting the second sock.<\/p>\n<p>2. I&#8217;m starting to think it will never be finished.<\/p>\n<p>3. Despite my best efforts it&#8217;s progressing at a snail&#8217;s pace. Or even less&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>4. Very, very slowly&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>5. This will never end.<\/p>\n<p>6. I will still be knitting this sock when I&#8217;m 92 and the moths have done for the first sock.<\/p>\n<p>7. This sock is unlike any sock I&#8217;ve ever battled with before. I can&#8217;t quite work out why. The teeny-tiny needles may be to blame, but I&#8217;m not sure. I love it, but at the same time it&#8217;s driving me slowly insane.<\/p>\n<p>8. But I keep plodding on.<\/p>\n<p>9. Clickety click, clickety clack&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>10. The never-ending sock saga.<\/p>\n<p>11. I&#8217;m showing you pictures of Z\u00fcrich in the spring sunshine today because I can&#8217;t bring myself to make more photos of the half-finished sock.<\/p>\n<p>12. Tomorrow maybe I&#8217;ll be done.<\/p>\n<p>13. But only if I neglect my family, my job and all other activities.<\/p>\n<p>14. And just knit.<\/p>\n<p>15. And knit&#8230;.and knit&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>16. More later&#8230;click click click.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Z\u00fcrich&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1938\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11-e1304513213967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11-e1304513213967.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/11-e1304513213967-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1939\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1940\" title=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3-e1304513276437.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3-e1304513276437.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/3-e1304513276437-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1941\" title=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4-e1304513322754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4-e1304513322754.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/4-e1304513322754-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1942\" title=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-e1304513359138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-e1304513359138.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/5-e1304513359138-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/61.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1944\" title=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/61-e1304513436745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/61-e1304513436745.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/61-e1304513436745-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. I am still knitting the second sock. 2. I&#8217;m starting to think it will never be finished. 3. Despite my best efforts it&#8217;s progressing at a snail&#8217;s pace. Or even less&#8230;. 4. Very, very slowly&#8230;. 5. This will never end. 6. I will still be knitting this sock when I&#8217;m 92 and the moths [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-vf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}