{"id":750,"date":"2011-06-06T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=750"},"modified":"2011-06-06T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:57:03","slug":"and-the-knitting-fates-laughed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=750","title":{"rendered":"And The Knitting Fates Laughed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I mentioned that I was just about to start blocking the border for Wedding Blanket the First.\u00a0 This was a somewhat momentous occasion, as it&#8217;s been months since I finished knitting said border, and at no time did I actually measure the in-progress or finished border against the blanket it was intended for.<\/p>\n<p>Can you see where this is going?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-751\" title=\"P1020947\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It all started with a pile of border &#8211; when I was knitting it, it seemed like miles, but in retrospect it was really only several yards long.<\/p>\n<p>The border got the customary dunking in water, was squeezed out, and then I laid it out in a rough rectangle on the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-752\" title=\"P1020949\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020949.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was when I started to get nervous.\u00a0 This seemed&#8230;large.\u00a0 In fact, this seemed like the size I had wanted the blanket to be, although I was pretty sure that the blanket was not, in fact, this large.<\/p>\n<p>Laying out the blanket only confirmed my fears.\u00a0 Somewhere, something had gone horribly, horribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-753\" title=\"P1020951\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020951.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The width is about right, but the length?\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 No amount of fudging is going to bring that back into alignment, either, unless I want to make the long-edge border ruffled.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s going to be some knitting surgery in the near future.\u00a0 I need to extract almost a foot from both long edges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-754\" title=\"P1020952\" src=\"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020952.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After <em>that<\/em>, the slog to attach said border will commence.<\/p>\n<p>Just between you and me, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to get this done within a year of the wedding.\u00a0 Maybe we should make the new deadline 18 months?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I mentioned that I was just about to start blocking the border for Wedding Blanket the First.\u00a0 This was a somewhat momentous occasion, as it&#8217;s been months since I finished knitting said border, and at no time did I actually measure the in-progress or finished border against the blanket it was [&hellip;]<\/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":[21,26,27,37],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-knitting-fates","tag-knitting-surgery","tag-mistakes","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}