{"id":462,"date":"2004-12-25T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2004-12-25T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-25T13:35:00","slug":"grr-nuts-and-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Grr, nuts, and yay!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Grr.:<\/b>  Christmas eve I had to take the cat to the vet again for another eye re-check.  The ulcer has receded from one part of the eye, but reappeared on another part.  It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a referral to a veterinary opthamologist.  My Latin is rusty, but I believe that &#8220;Veterinary opthamologist&#8221; translates as &#8220;Give me all your money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Nuts!:<\/b>  I finished knitting up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/devilhat.jpg\">toddler devil hat<\/a> for a friend, only to realize that the hat is sized to fit a kid who is probably between 12-18 months.  Except that the kid I was knitting it for is four year old.  Aw, nuts!  Well, somebody will want it.  I&#8217;ll just do another, since I&#8217;ve got plenty of red wool left over.<\/p>\n<p><b>Yay!:<\/b> My husband, impressed with how well I learned two-handed fair isle techniques to make him the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/invaderhat.jpg\">Space Invaders hat<\/a>, decided to get me something challenging and knitting related.  So I got a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0942018222\/qid=1103985864\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1\/102-0255400-0773700\">&#8220;Unexpected Knitting&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philosopherswool.com\/Pages\/BookandVideo.htm\">a video on two-handed fair-isle technique!<\/a>  I learned a LOT from the one minute streaming video that they have on their website, so I&#8217;m confident I&#8217;ll be throwing with both hands like a pro after seeing the video and practicing a little.  I&#8217;m very psyched!<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA:<\/b> Aaaand I have already managed to spill milk on the book, sticking half the pages together.  Merry Christmas, everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grr.: Christmas eve I had to take the cat to the vet again for another eye re-check. The ulcer has receded from one part of the eye, but reappeared on another part. It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a referral to a veterinary opthamologist. My Latin is rusty, but I believe that &#8220;Veterinary opthamologist&#8221; translates [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}