{"id":1969,"date":"2009-03-09T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2009-03-09T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T19:59:00","slug":"still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1969","title":{"rendered":"Still here."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/3341533457\/\" title=\"flame wave socks cuff by emisanboo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3556\/3341533457_ef09a5bd59_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" alt=\"flame wave socks cuff\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>I haven&#8217;t dropped off the face of the earth, it&#8217;s just been busy hereabouts.  Today I am cleaning like mad in preparation for having Em&#8217;s party here tomorrow.  It&#8217;s like bailing out the Titanic with a Dixie cup.  Still, I persevere.<\/p>\n<p>It occurs to me that I haven&#8217;t shown these.  These are Ann Budd&#8217;s Flame Wave socks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interweavestore.com\/store\/p\/1716-Favorite-Socks-25-Timeless-Designs-from-i-Interweave-i-.aspx\" target=\"blank\">Interweave Press&#8217; &#8220;Favorite Socks&#8221; book.<\/a>  56 stitch caston, Cascade Fixation.  I&#8217;m using size 4 and 3 needles instead of the recommended 5 and 4, as I am a loose knitter.  It&#8217;s going quickly but the bulk of my time is still taken up with Jayne hats.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of, if Brown Sheep doesn&#8217;t ship out their yellow yarn soon, I&#8217;m going to road trip to Nebraska to dye it myself.  The lack of yellow yarn is officially holding up the works now.  Fortunately I have four acrylic hats in a row, but I&#8217;m on number four, and then I&#8217;ll have to resort to calling all over the state and driving hither and yon for odd skeins.  It&#8217;s not an efficient use of resources, but time and Jayne hats wait for no man.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, cleaning calls.  If I&#8217;m not back by tomorrow, call the Coast Guard.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t dropped off the face of the earth, it&#8217;s just been busy hereabouts. Today I am cleaning like mad in preparation for having Em&#8217;s party here tomorrow. It&#8217;s like bailing out the Titanic with a Dixie cup. Still, I persevere. It occurs to me that I haven&#8217;t shown these. These are Ann Budd&#8217;s Flame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}