{"id":156,"date":"2004-06-09T21:40:23","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T01:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/i-really-do-knit\/"},"modified":"2004-06-09T21:40:23","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T01:40:23","slug":"i-really-do-knit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/06\/i-really-do-knit\/","title":{"rendered":"I Really Do Knit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, occasionally&#8230;  I&#8217;m actually done with the body of <a href=\"\/crafts\/index.shtml?rosebud\">Rosebud<\/a>.  I finished the three needle bind-off on the shoulders Sunday.  It only lacks sleeves.  So, why am I not working on it?  After all, it&#8217;s a maternity top, right?  I need to finish it if I plan to wear it for this pregnancy, don&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>I measured.  Not only once or twice, but about a dozen times.  I did complicated math to make my off-by-a-fraction-of-an-inch gauge match up with a good stitch count.  I planned extra length in the torso and a smidge (like 1\/2&#8243;) extra room in the bust.  And I&#8217;m <i>swimming<\/i> in it.  Except in the torso, where it doesn&#8217;t cover the maternity panel on my jeans.  What happened?!?  My gauge, measured in random spots, still matches my original gauge, so it&#8217;s not that.  Did I measure myself wrong?  All twelve times?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know whether to finish it, wear it despite its flaws, hope that being cotton it will stretch lengthwise (or force it to stretch with a bit of judicious blocking) and just be done with it, or if I should toss it in the corner and glare at it for the rest of its natural life.  I&#8217;m afraid to frog it, since the yarn sheds quite a bit, and it might just look awful when I go to re-knit it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I guess I&#8217;ll toss it in the corner for the rest of the week, anyway, since it&#8217;s just too hot to knit right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, occasionally&#8230; I&#8217;m actually done with the body of Rosebud. I finished the three needle bind-off on the shoulders Sunday. It only lacks sleeves. So, why am I not working on it? After all, it&#8217;s a maternity top, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}