{"id":127,"date":"2009-05-12T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=127"},"modified":"2010-07-31T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T18:33:17","slug":"hot-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Hot mess."},"content":{"rendered":"

So, at some point in the not too distant past, I heard someone (probably in a movie) say something looked a “hot mess”. At the time, I had a hard time thinking I’d work that phrase into my daily vocab. Turns out I was wrong. I attempted this hat:
\nhttp:\/\/jlyarnworks.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/hermiones-cable-eyelet-hat.html<\/a><\/br>
\nIt is really pretty and I’m quite sure that if a person can read the pattern and knit, it works out beautifully. I, evidently, cannot read a pattern. I confused this with the other hat I was considering that was worked on circular needles in rows. So about 1\/3 of the way in, I realized something was wrong, but wasn’t sure what, so I kept going. Things didn’t look quite right, but since I was feeling negatively towards the alpaca I was using, I thought maybe it was to blame. So, 2\/3 of the way in, I thought, hmmm. this isn’t right. This looks a hot mess……..
\nSo, I ripped a couple of rows out of it to see if I could salvage it and figured out what I had done. I had been so excited by my new found continental speed that I had been paying no attention to the pattern and how it was really supposed to look at the beginning and the fact that I should have been working in the round. I pretty much invented my own pattern to decrease at the top and ended up with a hat that any non-knitter would be pleased with. :)
\nand I felt a strange sense of accomplishment that I ripped and then picked up 110 stitches. This is huge progress for me. :)<\/br>
\nHere are a few pictures for you to admire or laugh at depending on your mood.<\/br>
\n\"Hermoine<\/a>\"Wearing<\/a><\/p>\n

(5\/12\/2009 10:20 pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, at some point in the not too distant past, I heard someone (probably in a movie) say something looked a “hot mess”. At the time, I had a hard time thinking I’d work that phrase into my daily vocab. Turns out I was wrong. I attempted this hat: http:\/\/jlyarnworks.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/hermiones-cable-eyelet-hat.html It is really pretty and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}