{"id":213,"date":"2010-02-11T18:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2010-02-11T18:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:35:51","slug":"im-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"I’m In!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, the Yarn Harlot declared the start of the Knitting Olympics<\/a> – and I didn’t do it.\u00a0 I could use any excuse I want about how I was in college, it was a weird time for me, I didn’t have the yarn for a good project, yadda, yadda, yadda.\u00a0 The real reason I didn’t go for it was…er…well, if we’re going to be quite honest here (and when are we not?), I was just too lazy to put the effort into picking a pattern, and finding the yarn, and waiting to start until the right time, and so forth.\u00a0 When I have the urge to start a project, very little can get in my way – even the Knitting Olympics.<\/p>\n

This year, though, I’m in.\u00a0 I’m doing it.\u00a0 I’m signing up for the Knitting Olympics (in fact, just did, right here<\/a>).\u00a0 I’ve got the pattern (Anjou<\/a> from French Girl Knits<\/a>), the yarn (Berroco Ultra Alpaca Fine in the 1275 colorway), and the needles.\u00a0 The yarn is wound up.\u00a0 I’ve swatched (although I’m living dangerously, because I’ve decided to skip blocking the swatch and fudge the numbers a bit between my inability to get gauge and the lack of a size that really fits me well).\u00a0 I’m ready to go.<\/p>\n

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Or, I was ready.\u00a0 Then Monkey Kitty got involved.<\/p>\n

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Now I like untangling knots more than most people (I’ve actually begged some of my friends to let me untangle skeins they got into a mess), but this was not what I wanted to wake up to this morning.\u00a0 Luckily, only one of the three balls was really unwound (but boy was it ever!), and Monkey Kitty didn’t break the yarn in too many places.\u00a0 Still, I’ll be spending a bit of time tonight turning this:<\/p>\n

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Back into this:<\/p>\n

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Because tomorrow, I get to cast on and go to town.\u00a0 This will be interesting – the pattern doesn’t look too challenging technically, but it does have lace which has to be blocked (actually, the whole thing needs to be blocked), and I’ll need to plan accordingly for that one.\u00a0 Also, there’s miles of stockinette down the body – that’s the endurance section.\u00a0 And then there’s the seaming, which based on the description seems fiddly at best.<\/p>\n

Really, I can’t wait.\u00a0 Except I have to.<\/p>\n

Damn rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, the Yarn Harlot declared the start of the Knitting Olympics – and I didn’t do it.\u00a0 I could use any excuse I want about how I was in college, it was a weird time for me, I didn’t have the yarn for a good project, yadda, yadda, yadda.\u00a0 The real reason I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,28],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting-olympics","tag-monkey-kitty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}