{"id":4821,"date":"2012-12-23T17:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2012-12-23T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T15:43:32","slug":"caught-a-bit-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Caught a bit short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/19.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4822\" title=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/19.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/19-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the doolallying that \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing here in the last couple of days has been rather delightful and just what I needed.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>and unfortunately there is a but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I clearly had my eye off the ball.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/austin-hoodie\" >Austin Hoodie<\/a> that I&#8217;m making for eldest daughter for Christmas is still two sleeves and half a hood short of being a hoodie. Even knitting non-stop for the next 36 hours I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s humanly possible to remedy the situation. Her bottom lip is currently all the way from here to kingdom come, but I suspect that she may be pulling my leg and not be all that bothered.<\/p>\n<p>Several things landed me in this situation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. The recent uncharacteristic descent into utter laziness.<\/li>\n<li>2. The fact that I made a fairly monumental error on one of the fronts and had to pull it out back to the armhole divide when the front was only a whisker away from being finished.<\/li>\n<li>3. The unbelievably enormous colour variation between skeins of this yarn (<em>Madeline Tosh Merino Light<\/em> in Margeaux). It is gorgeous yarn, but it&#8217;s hand dyed and I know that can give rise to quite a bit of variation&#8230;.but at it&#8217;s most extreme I had one ball that looked blue and another that looked pink. I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time trying to knit with several balls at once to try to even it all out &#8211; and I&#8217;m still not really happy&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>4. My complete failure to make significant progress during last night&#8217;s Strictly Come Dancing fest &#8230;.in three hours of dancing I should surely have been able to knit a hood. You&#8217;d really think so, wouldn&#8217;t you? I blame utterly mesmerizing dancing and Louis Smith taking his top off. (Daughter No.2 says I&#8217;m not allowed to say this, apparently it&#8217;s really mortifying if your almost 50 year old mother thinks a 22 year old man (read: god) is hot). So I&#8217;m not saying anything of the sort, but it did disturb my knitting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On that happy note I&#8217;m going back to my smoking needles.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the doolallying that \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing here in the last couple of days has been rather delightful and just what I needed. But&#8230; and unfortunately there is a but&#8230; I clearly had my eye off the ball. The Austin Hoodie that I&#8217;m making for eldest daughter for Christmas is still two sleeves and half [&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],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQtrc-1fL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821"}],"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=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runquiltknitwrite.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}