{"id":28,"date":"2004-11-08T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knitupload.wordpress.com\/2004\/11\/08\/finally-getting-back-to-knitting\/"},"modified":"2008-09-18T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T21:27:26","slug":"finally-getting-back-to-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Finally getting back to knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been grumpy&#8230; well&#8230; okay&#8230; I was grumpy.  Between the election results and having a paper comparing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umanitoba.ca\/faculties\/arts\/history\/faculty\/cook.html\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Cook&#8217;s<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slais.ubc.ca\/PEOPLE\/faculty\/faculty-bio\/duranti-bio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Luciana Duranti&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectionscanada.ca\/information-management\/061101_e.html\" target=\"_blank\">appraisal models<\/a>* due on Saturday not much knitting was done&#8230; okay, no knitting was done until Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>I had written an entry about the lack of knitting and furious paper source reading that had been occurring, but Blogger ate it.  Hope it was yummy.<\/p>\n<p>But, now, thankfully, knitting has recommenced.  I got 12 rows done on the lace shawl.  Somehow I feel accomplished, but I also feel like I&#8217;m getting nowhere.  I have to keep remembering that every 4 inches stretches out to 6 inches.  But the end still feel a long ways off&#8230; I&#8217;m on row 56 and I estimated that I need to have 144 rows done to get the desired length without the edging, which I&#8217;m guessing will add approximately 2 inches in length&#8230; the numbers all work out nicely that way, which could mean I&#8217;m horribly wrong**.  I have decided that I need to get cracking on it again since December 28th is looming, and I need enough time to block the thing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, back to work.<\/p>\n<hr width=\"25%\" align=\"left\">*<small>This particular link goes to Cook&#8217;s theory, which is the one I sided with&#8230; cause I know you all care. *grin*<\/small><br \/>\n<br \/>**<small>I did, in fact, knit a gauge swatch&#8230; which I promptly forgot to measure before blocking, so my 4 inches knit = 6 inches blocked is, simply put, a guess&#8230; an edumicated guess, but a guess nonetheless.<\/small> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been grumpy&#8230; well&#8230; okay&#8230; I was grumpy. Between the election results and having a paper comparing Terry Cook&#8217;s and Luciana Duranti&#8217;s appraisal models* due on Saturday not much knitting was done&#8230; okay, no knitting was done &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=28\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[10,44,40,11,15,12,13,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}