{"id":1147,"date":"2006-08-19T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/no-self-control\/"},"modified":"2006-08-19T20:17:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-20T00:17:35","slug":"no-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/08\/no-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"No Self Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pink socks from my sock kit are on the needles.  So much for waiting until I was finished with the gift socks!<\/p>\n<p>I justified it by telling myself I would just knit a swatch.  But the thing is, this yarn is just amazing to work with.  I think I mentioned it has aloe in it, and it&#8217;s so incredibly soft and wonderful to knit that I couldn&#8217;t just stop with the swatch.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that halfway through the ribbing I gave myself a swift mental kick and vowed to work the other sock at least through the heel turn before I could even look at the other sock again.  So far it&#8217;s working&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that I couldn&#8217;t even wait 24 hours before casting on is a pretty good explanation as to why there are several unfinished mate-less socks and many, many other UFOs in my craft room.  I&#8217;m just too fickle!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I do have to mention one thing, though.  I ordered some new <a href=\"http:\/\/knitpicks.com\/needles\/Needles_list.aspx?dgroups='KPFixedCables'\">KnitPick&#8217;s needles<\/a> for my pal, and a set for myself while I was at it, so I decided to start my new sock on those instead of my Addi&#8217;s.  That pretty purple cable is the most flexible circular cable I&#8217;ve ever used, and the needles themselves are nice and sharp, perfect for the &#8220;slip two together, knit the next stitch, pass the two slipped stitches over&#8221; part of the pattern.  So far I think these are my favorite sock needles.  Don&#8217;t tell the Addi&#8217;s.  ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pink socks from my sock kit are on the needles. So much for waiting until I was finished with the gift socks! I justified it by telling myself I would just knit a swatch. But the thing is, this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}