{"id":190,"date":"2009-10-11T13:36:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=190"},"modified":"2010-07-31T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:57:10","slug":"i-feel-a-blog-coming-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"I feel a blog coming on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started training for a 3 mile jog last Wednesday. The run is for a good cause and I&#8217;m excited to try to meet this new challenge since I&#8217;ve never come close to jogging\/running anything over a mile. Will running turn out to be another new hobby? probably not. :)<\/br><br \/>\nI was surfing ravelry.com and ran across a very talented artist. Barbara made this:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturetrail.com\/sfx\/album\/view\/997567\">http:\/\/www.picturetrail.com\/sfx\/album\/view\/997567<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m inspired by her use of colors and textures&#8230;.gorgeous! I&#8217;m amazed by how she captured fire. I plan to make something with similar colors one day&#8230;..the idea of freeform knitting and crocheting also interests me. I would love to be able to freeform cables one day.<\/br><br \/>\nMy friend, Stephanie reinspired me to work on the WoW blanket. She and I talked about using post double and trable crochets to get the look I want without me having to work the whole blanket from the front (a huge pain in the arse)&#8230;but the more I thought about this, the lion would have looked like he had dreadlocks&#8230;.so I kept thinking and Lisa said, &#8220;why don&#8217;t you knit it?&#8221;. Granted, this is her answer to most of my crochet issues, but I was stunned and had to wonder why I hadn&#8217;t thought of it myself. But then I knew why&#8230;.knitting a blanket this size is not for the faint of heart, but I like things to look the way I want them to, so I ordered my addi turbo circulars and I&#8217;m off to the races. Thank goodness the girls talked me out of double-knitting it. I only considered that for 5 mins, but I&#8217;m sure it would have been the death of me&#8230;.well, either that or I&#8217;d have gotten a lovely padded cell. :)<br \/>\n<\/br>The World of Warcraft blanket is now about 15% done. A vertical yarn lazy susan would make this go a lot faster. I&#8217;d like to be able to untwist the yarns midair after I&#8217;ve twisted them for carries. Hopefully, the next color section will have less long carries. There does seem to be a patent for what I want, but no product online that I see.  I did find a way online to make a $5 yarn swift online using a plastic lazy susan, wire coat hangers, and duct tape. :)<br \/>\nThere is something great about knitting a blanket when it is cold and rainy outside. :)<br \/>\n<\/br>In other news, Couples Retreat was a good movie. :)<\/br><br \/>\nPeas out!<\/br><\/br> (10\/11\/2009 1:36pm)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started training for a 3 mile jog last Wednesday. The run is for a good cause and I&#8217;m excited to try to meet this new challenge since I&#8217;ve never come close to jogging\/running anything over a mile. Will running turn out to be another new hobby? probably not. :) I was surfing ravelry.com and [&hellip;]<\/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-190","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\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}