{"id":398,"date":"2010-06-13T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=398"},"modified":"2010-06-13T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T21:09:46","slug":"sometimes-it-takes-me-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes It Takes Me Awhile"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, just over a year ago, I decided to knit the Blanket Thief<\/a> some slippers<\/a>.\u00a0 I’d read about them on the Yarn Harlot’s blog<\/a> a while ago, and when he mentioned that he didn’t have any slippers I immediately thought, “That’s something knitting can fix!”<\/p>\n

Now, mind you, I tend to have the “That’s something knitting can fix!” reaction a lot – it’s my version of “if all you have is a hammer…” – but usually I’m stretching at best.\u00a0 This<\/em> time, though, I was right – this was indeed a problem that knitting could fix, and without much ado I found yarn, I found that Fiber Trends pattern, and I went to work.\u00a0 Easy peasy.<\/p>\n

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The Blanket Thief has been super happy with them for the past year, except for one tiny little thing.\u00a0 I had planned to sew on some suede bottoms in order to make them a little less slippery\/last a bit longer, and I went so far as to buy<\/em> said bottoms…<\/p>\n

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…but I never actually attached<\/em> said bottoms.\u00a0 By and large, this was something that everyone was okay with, and things might have in fact stayed this way forever if I hadn’t noticed that the slippers were leaving little pills on the carpet next to the couch where the Blanket Thief liked to sit.\u00a0 Apparently, I was totally okay with the idea that I might have to knit him another pair someday when they wore away, and I was kind of okay with the idea that he might slip a little on the few tiled surfaces in our house, but the idea of the really messy, to-be-replaced-someday carpet getting pills on it?\u00a0 Apparently not okay.<\/p>\n

I quickly whipped out my cotton thread, and within a couple episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, the slippers had soles.<\/p>\n

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I’m not convinced I did the best job ever (frankly, I’m sure I could do better if I were to rip them out and try again, now that I’ve had the practice), but the Blanket Thief thinks they’re snazzy and who am I to argue?<\/p>\n

Besides, when you get right down to it, they do look pretty snazzy.<\/p>\n

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Maybe I<\/em> need a pair…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, just over a year ago, I decided to knit the Blanket Thief some slippers.\u00a0 I’d read about them on the Yarn Harlot’s blog a while ago, and when he mentioned that he didn’t have any slippers I immediately thought, “That’s something knitting can fix!” Now, mind you, I tend to have the “That’s something […]<\/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":[32],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-slippers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}