{"id":876,"date":"2011-12-27T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gknerd.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:33:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:33:54","slug":"theyre-stretchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gknerd.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"They’re Stretchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was on my honeymoon several months ago, I decided to start knitting a pair of socks.\u00a0 I had grand plans for the pattern, but in the interim took a bit of a break and then realized that I couldn’t remember what that plan was<\/a>. \u00a0 I also started feeling a bit of animosity toward the pattern, but since I am<\/em> delusional and I am not<\/em> a quitter, I kept going.<\/p>\n

Anytime someone would see me knitting those socks, they’d ask who they were for, “Like, a kid or something?”\u00a0 And I’d laugh, and say they were for me, and demonstrate that they were actually quite stretchy.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, they’re not stretchy enough.\u00a0 They barely<\/em> (and only with a lot of swearing and some lost skin) fit over my heels.\u00a0 Once they’re on, they fit like a dream, of course, but if it takes me five minutes to put on my socks in the morning I’m not going to be a happy camper.<\/p>\n

Of course, I blame the yarn.\u00a0 This was the last set of Deborah Norville<\/a> yarn I had in the stash, and I haven’t had a single positive experience<\/a> with that stuff.\u00a0 With any other yarn, 72 stitches would have been enough to fit around my heel (I’ve got some socks with 68 stitches in them and they fit just fine), but with this<\/em> yarn…no.\u00a0 It’s just not working out.<\/p>\n

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I don’t think I’m the only one that feels that way either – Monkey Kitty did the usual thing and came to investigate the knitting as soon as it hit the floor…<\/p>\n

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…and not 10 seconds later, he was walking away again – apparently, this yarn isn’t even good enough to chew on.<\/p>\n

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So now, I just have to find someone who has smaller heels than I do, that I don’t really like too much, but who I like enough to give them hand knit socks.\u00a0 Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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