{"id":544,"date":"2010-11-22T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T03:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2010-11-22T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T03:14:15","slug":"to-the-frog-pond-with-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"To The Frog Pond With Ye"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing about making a sweater up from scratch, as I’m doing with the cARGHdigan project, is that there’s no one to blame but yourself when things go wrong.<\/p>\n

For example, when (finally) started on the sleeves, I measured The Blanket Thief<\/a>‘s wrists.\u00a0 He wanted them pretty tight, so I added an inch, looked up the gauge I’d calculated earlier, figured out how many stitches to cast on, started knitting like a fiend.\u00a0 When the cuff was done, I measured his biceps, the length of his arm, did a few more calculations, and kept knitting, increasing as I went.<\/p>\n

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The whole time, I kept looking at it thinking, “Something doesn’t look right.\u00a0 It seems a little bit small, right?\u00a0 It’s not quite right.”\u00a0 And yet, I soldiered on, not one to let a little adversity sway me from completing a project.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I also didn’t want to let stubbornness force me to finish two entire sleeves before admitting that they weren’t coming out right – and something about having to increase on every other row certainly seemed very wrong.\u00a0 After about 8 inches of knitting, I finally put it around The Blanket Thief’s arm and asked, “Sweetie, what do you think?”<\/p>\n

He grimaced.\u00a0 “It’s a little tight.”<\/p>\n

Crap.\u00a0 At least I can always trust him to be honest.<\/p>\n

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As for the sleeves?\u00a0 I’m going to make them walk the plank, then I’m starting over.\u00a0 At least I was only halfway up the forearms before I figured it out – that’s progress, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing about making a sweater up from scratch, as I’m doing with the cARGHdigan project, is that there’s no one to blame but yourself when things go wrong. For example, when (finally) started on the sleeves, I measured The Blanket Thief‘s wrists.\u00a0 He wanted them pretty tight, so I added an inch, looked up […]<\/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":[12,27],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-carghdigan","tag-mistakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}