{"id":37,"date":"2009-12-09T18:08:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T02:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:08:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T02:08:59","slug":"bad-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Bad Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Thanksgiving weekend, we (the Blanket Thief and I) went up to visit my parents.\u00a0 I packed at the last minute (er…like always), which meant that I had to be a bit quick about which knitting projects to bring.\u00a0 Of course, there were the in-progress-go-anywhere socks that were already in my purse, but then I couldn’t think of what else to bring.<\/p>\n

At some point, I should do a round up of my WIP – that would be a good reminder for me to actually finish some of them.\u00a0 But that’s a different post (or several) for a different day.<\/em><\/p>\n

The most likely candidate for me to bring that weekend was the cARGHdigan, but I didn’t really want to package all of that up for the trip.\u00a0 I could have taken any one of the dozens of sock yarns I have, but…er…that would have required me to pick<\/em> one, and that didn’t sound like a quick idea at the time.<\/p>\n

When we were already at least twenty minutes late, I decided to not decide, which meant that all I ended up taking was the in-progress socks and a shawl I wanted to block.\u00a0 At the time, I kind of patted myself on the back, thinking that I had made it out of the trap that most knitters fall into when they take an extra bag for the weekend to hold all of their projects\/yarn (none of which they have time to touch).\u00a0 I was more evolved.\u00a0 I was realistic – it wasn’t like I was going to actually finish<\/em> those socks.<\/p>\n

They have a word for that feeling I was having – they call it “hubris”, and the Knitting Fates find it particularly fun to punish.<\/p>\n

Apparently, I knit socks faster than I thought I did – I started the weekend at the red line, was at the orange line by the end of Thursday, and I was done with the pair before Friday night, with no other projects, no new yarn, nothing else to keep my hands busy for the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n

\"P1010101\"<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ll ever travel without an extra suitcase again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Thanksgiving weekend, we (the Blanket Thief and I) went up to visit my parents.\u00a0 I packed at the last minute (er…like always), which meant that I had to be a bit quick about which knitting projects to bring.\u00a0 Of course, there were the in-progress-go-anywhere socks that were already in my purse, but then 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":[21,33],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting-fates","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}