{"id":632,"date":"2009-06-11T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=632"},"modified":"2009-06-11T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:30:51","slug":"making-it-through-another-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Making it through another week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that with such a beautiful wheel and no thesis taking up my time, I&#8217;d be getting tons of spinning done (which I should be doing since I have tons of fiber lying around after joining the <a title=\"Spunky Fiber\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spunkyeclectic.com\/spunkyclub.htm\">Spunky Ecelectic Fiber Club<\/a>).\u00a0 But after twisting my ankle last month the spinning slacked off.\u00a0 It got better just in time for me to ingest some mystery item that has left me with a beautiful case of hives for the last couple of weeks.\u00a0 Benadryl induced stupor is not the ideal spinning frame of mind, sadly.<\/p>\n<p>I have been trying to get some knitting done.\u00a0 I have a friend who&#8217;s baby tried to make an early appearance&#8230; 9 weeks early.\u00a0 She&#8217;s now on bed rest and I have been given warning to get the baby gift finished cause the kid may be here sooner rather than later.\u00a0 I picked up a skein of Dream in Color Classy in Happy Forest, a nice, cheery green because I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a boy or girl.\u00a0 I knit up a quick roll-brim hat and a couple of booties to match.<\/p>\n<p>The booties were a lot of fun to knit.\u00a0 I had picked up Cat Bordhi&#8217;s New Pathways book a couple months ago, but had done nothing but flip through it.\u00a0 Someone at my Saturday knitting group had done a couple of the practice booties from the books and I liked the way they looked.\u00a0 So, I whipped up a couple of the Sky Arch booties over the last couple of days.\u00a0 My drugged attention span caused me to miss the instruction to knit 8 rounds after the ribbing, but I think they still look completely cute and should still fit alright even without the added length.\u00a0 The baby won&#8217;t know the difference, and I won&#8217;t tell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One would think that with such a beautiful wheel and no thesis taking up my time, I&#8217;d be getting tons of spinning done (which I should be doing since I have tons of fiber lying around after joining the Spunky &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=632\">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":[4,43,5],"tags":[256,258,257,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"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=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}