{"id":1084,"date":"2013-03-22T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2013-03-22T11:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T13:59:13","slug":"knit-one-purl-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/22\/knit-one-purl-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Knit one, purl more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many knitters, we reach different times of the year when we realize, &#8220;Oh crap. It&#8217;s September already! Christmas\/the holidays are only a few months away! I have to get knitting!&#8221; That&#8217;s normally the case for me. But with spring here (by definition only and not by example of the weather we&#8217;re currently having!), I&#8217;m itching to get back to my knitting again.<\/p>\n<p>Since before going to Taiwan last year, I haven&#8217;t picked up two sticks and string to create something out of magic (or as <a title=\"Matt's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/matthewmiddleton.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matt<\/a> often says, it&#8217;s witchcraft). I did do some knitting for Christmas, but even that was limited to a couple of people. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I have a number of projects that are &#8220;on the needles&#8221; and have yet to be completed (including half finished socks for my dad!). My poor <a title=\"Ravelry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/people\/NewfieStitches\" target=\"_blank\">Ravelry account<\/a> hasn&#8217;t been updated in ages. That&#8217;s on my on-going to-do list for this hobby. Maybe once Miranda and I get settled into a routine I&#8217;ll be able to knit more.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Latest knitting project. by Virginia_Middleton, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vmiddleton\/7963023582\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baby blanket\" alt=\"Latest knitting project.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8448\/7963023582_e6b54553f0_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of my latest knitting projects<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is an older picture of the baby blanket I want to finish for Miranda. I was getting so close to finishing it before she was born, but then I found an error around 30+ rows down and I couldn&#8217;t let it go; I had to fix it. I was hoping I could pick down to the mistake, but alas, it wasn&#8217;t really possible. So I&#8217;m left with a bunch of rows half ripped out and feeling the daunting task of having to redo so much progress. Ah well, it&#8217;ll be worth it in the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what are you working on these days? Any crafty projects that are inspiring your creative side? Or is there something you&#8217;re dying to start, but just need that extra push?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many knitters, we reach different times of the year when we realize, &#8220;Oh crap. It&#8217;s September already! Christmas\/the holidays are only a few months away! I have to get knitting!&#8221; That&#8217;s normally the case for me. But with spring here (by definition only and not by example of the weather we&#8217;re currently having!), I&#8217;m [&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,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[83,97,93,22,99,74],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-hu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}