{"id":580,"date":"2011-01-05T22:21:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T06:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2011-01-05T22:21:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T06:21:23","slug":"xmas-knitting-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Knitting Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"

This holiday season, I had not one, not two, not even three, but four<\/em> family Christmas celebrations to go to.\u00a0 Luckily, they were spread out over the course of a week – I’m not sure how I would have survived otherwise.<\/p>\n

Also luckily, the people in my family know what I like: yarn and knitting stuff.<\/p>\n

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I indeed get some sock blockers, which will serve me well with all the socks<\/a> I’ve managed to create over the years.\u00a0 Not that I actually block socks – I’m way too impatient for that, just like I can’t stand sock yarn that’s hand-wash only.\u00a0 However, I think these will go a long way towards helping me take better pictures<\/em> of my socks, and really, that’s what it’s all about, right?<\/p>\n

The yarn deserves it’s own close up – first some yarn from my step-sister-in-law:<\/p>\n

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It’s Woodland yarn in some gorgeous, subdued colors.\u00a0 The yarn is part wool and part nettle (but the good part, not the stinging part) and entirely scrumptious.\u00a0 I don’t know what I’ll be making with it yet, but I’m kind of leaning towards hat & glove (dare I stretch to scarf?) set.<\/p>\n

My new mother-in-law got me a very different kind of yarn:<\/p>\n

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The colors are super bright, and there are all different colors of flecks throughout the yarn.\u00a0 Plus, the yarn is apparently dyed somewhere close to where my parents-in-law live – it’s super dangerous for me to know that there’s a yarn making operation anywhere near their house, so I’m going to do my best to forget that as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

As lovely as the yarn and sock blockers are (and they are, indeed, quite lovely), they pale in comparison to the last knitting gift I received, the one you can’t see in the first picture because it’s in this box:<\/p>\n

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Can you guess what that is?\u00a0 That, my friends, is a circular needle case.\u00a0 I’ve been wanting something exactly like this for years – I knit almost exclusively with circular needles (and by “almost exclusively”, I mean that the last time I knit with something that didn’t have a cable was probably in 2009), and I’ve never had an adequate sorting mechanism for them.<\/p>\n

But now?<\/p>\n

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I feel more organized just looking at it.\u00a0 It’s so trim, so smart, so perfect for me.<\/p>\n

(It might have helped that I slipped the ad for it into the Blanket Thief<\/a>‘s pocket…and told him which color to get me…)<\/p>\n

Now, if only I could find all of my circulars to put into the different pockets, I’d be set…so far, I’ve only got one in there.<\/p>\n

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In other news, happy new year!\u00a0 Here’s hoping your holidays were great, and that your 2011 is even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This holiday season, I had not one, not two, not even three, but four family Christmas celebrations to go to.\u00a0 Luckily, they were spread out over the course of a week – I’m not sure how I would have survived otherwise. Also luckily, the people in my family know what I like: yarn and knitting […]<\/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":[39],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","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=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}