{"id":497,"date":"2010-10-12T20:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T03:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2010-10-12T20:43:43","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T03:43:43","slug":"things-that-didnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"Things That Didn’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the blocking is done, I have the simple task of sewing the miles of seams between the three panels.  This exercise is making me question why I didn’t just knit it all as one giant thing.  I mean, sure, it would have been nearly impossible to knit on the go, and I would have needed a much longer needle, but on the other hand?<\/p>\n

Seaming is ridiculously boring.<\/p>\n

Plus, the right seam for the job is not always the same seam I like to use – my go-to seam is a kind of modified mattress stitch where I use the selvage stitches as the guide for the yarn.<\/p>\n

\"Mattress<\/p>\n

Turns out, when you’re seaming purling, that ends up looking a little funny.  It, er, took me a while to accept that, as the multiple inches in the seam above migt indicate.<\/p>\n

Not to be bested, I decided to try another seam type (I’m not-so-good when it comes to the technical names for things – we’ll call this ‘seam type B’).<\/p>\n

\"Seam<\/p>\n

Seam type B is actually also the wrong type of seam for this project.  Very, very wrong.<\/p>\n

I thus turned to seam type C, which I didn’t have very high hopes for, but thought I should try just in case.<\/p>\n

\"Seam<\/p>\n

Nope, I was right the first time.  I’ve never liked seam type C, and I’m apparently not going to start here.<\/p>\n

So what was left?  Well, that really left only one viable option: seam type D, the fiddliest, most time consuming option of them all.<\/p>\n

\"Seam<\/p>\n

Seam type D it is.  Why does the fiddliest option always win?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the blocking is done, I have the simple task of sewing the miles of seams between the three panels.  This exercise is making me question why I didn’t just knit it all as one giant thing.  I mean, sure, it would have been nearly impossible to knit on the go, and I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}