{"id":822,"date":"2006-03-21T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=822"},"modified":"2006-03-21T11:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T15:26:00","slug":"knittin-and-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Knittin&#8217; and stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old-fashioned, but I like the first few days of Spring to be filled with flowers and sunshine, not wind and sleet.  I went a mile on the treadmill this morning, because the weather was unpleasant.  Fortunately, I have discovered the wonder of podcasts, and so I listened to a &#8220;best of NPR&#8221; type selection which was pleasant.  I hope to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitcast.com\/\">knitcast<\/a> tomorrow.  Unfortunately, I think I need some noise-cancelling headphones.  I&#8217;m uneasy with turning up the old earbuds that high to overcome the roar of the treadmill.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like my swappee from the fibergoddaughter swap isn&#8217;t going to be able to post pics anytime soon, so here&#8217;s one item that I sent her that I thought was kind of nifty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Secret%20Pal\/FGfeltedsoap.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s felted soap, which is just roving wet-felted around a bar of soap.  So it&#8217;s a bar of nifty soap encased in its own washcloth, basically.  It lathers GREAT.  If you squeeze it out between uses, it does last a nice long time.  I&#8217;ve used this stuff and I love it.  I may have to make myself some more soon.  Heck, I make some for others, if there&#8217;s demand.<\/p>\n<p>Knitted another repeat of the cable pattern on Shedir, which is looking much better to my eye now that I can see its shape emerging.  I&#8217;m alternating using cable needles and not using them, just because sometimes it feels unwieldy to do some of the crosses without them.  I&#8217;m happy with it so far.  (<lj user=crazycatladymel>, if you look closely, you&#8217;ll see that I&#8217;m using your stitch markers.  Thanks again!)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Shedir\/Shedir2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0399146\/\">&#8220;A History of Violence,&#8221;<\/a> which should be titled &#8220;A History of People Getting Parts Of Their Face Shot Off In Gory Closeup.&#8221;  William Hurt hasn&#8217;t even shown up yet, and you just know he can ramp up the crazy factor by a power of ten.  Good movie, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but I&#8217;m off of hamburger for a while for sure.  <\/p>\n<p>Jayne hats are chugging along.  <lj user=katalystchikai>, you&#8217;re #2 on the list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call me old-fashioned, but I like the first few days of Spring to be filled with flowers and sunshine, not wind and sleet. I went a mile on the treadmill this morning, because the weather was unpleasant. Fortunately, I have discovered the wonder of podcasts, and so I listened to a &#8220;best of NPR&#8221; type [&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":[63,5,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}