{"id":205,"date":"2004-02-06T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/02\/coming-up-for-air-2\/"},"modified":"2004-02-06T23:00:18","modified_gmt":"2004-02-07T03:00:18","slug":"coming-up-for-air-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2004\/02\/coming-up-for-air-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Up For Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent all of my free time over the past 36 hours devouring the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0425193896\/qid=1076126271\/\/ref=pd_ka_1\/102-2232437-0916904?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\">Monica Ferris Needlecraft Mystery novel<\/a>.  Don&#8217;t be too impressed, they&#8217;re not difficult reads.  But when I read a mystery, I have to practically sit on my hands to not flip to the end to check my guess about who did it, so I read them fast.  I actually had this one right about half-way through, and spent the rest of the book trying to figure out why the rest of the characters didn&#8217;t see it.<\/p>\n<p>Silly, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that&#8217;s why the only knitting I&#8217;ve done in the past couple of days was last night at Sit &#038; Knit.  I&#8217;m a little panicked, because I think my <a href=\"\/crafts\/index.shtml?greenMountains\">new cardie<\/a> is going to be smaller than the gauge swatch indicated.  My gauge swatch gave me 19 stitches to 4&#8243;.  The recommended gauge was 20 stitches to 4&#8243;.  Around the body of the sweater, that would give me an extra 2&#8243;, which made the medium size perfectly match my favorite cardigan.  Now that I&#8217;m several inches into it, however, I&#8217;m measuring 20 stitches to 4&#8243;.  One blasted little stitch off.  I suppose I could always knit the front bands a little wider if it really works out to be a little snug, especially since it uses clasps instead of buttons.  Then again, maybe blocking it will do the trick.  Or maybe I should (gasp) rip it and start over with a bigger needle&#8230;?  That really doesn&#8217;t sound like too much fun.  Did I mention that I&#8217;ve done several 3-color rows?  On 215 stitches?<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;d better sleep on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent all of my free time over the past 36 hours devouring the new Monica Ferris Needlecraft Mystery novel. Don&#8217;t be too impressed, they&#8217;re not difficult reads. But when I read a mystery, I have to practically sit<\/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-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}