{"id":2924,"date":"2012-07-05T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2012-07-06T11:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:18:02","slug":"we-are-on-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=2924","title":{"rendered":"We are on a break!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I had a week left in a Knit A Long and only needed to finish my second Chrysanthemum sock by the end of June. “No problem!” I thought to myself as I cast on Sunday June 24th. But, I couldn’t seem to cast on the right number of provisional cast-on stitches to save my life. “No worries, I still have plenty of time. The first sock was a quick knit.”
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Monday night I tried again….for several hours. No dice. “HOW was the first one so much easier?!?”
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Tuesday night, I decided I was not going to finish the sock in time for the knit along, but I darn well was going to have a working provisional cast-on with the right barking number of stitches before I went to sleep…and so it was that the crocheted provisional cast-on became a life-saver.
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\nI’d used the looped version before because knittinghelp.com says that’s what one uses for a provisional cast-on. Despite the fact that I felt like I was admitting defeat by switching methods, I’ve never been more grateful that I know how to crochet. I finished the picot edging on Wednesday night and then I put that sock in time out and decided this was the universe’s way of telling me to catch up on some housework I’d been neglecting in favor of knitting.
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\nSo, I took a couple of days off and did some spring cleaning….in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I had a week left in a Knit A Long and only needed to finish my second Chrysanthemum sock by the end of June. “No problem!” I thought to myself as I cast on Sunday June 24th. But, I couldn’t seem to cast on the right number of provisional cast-on stitches to save my […]<\/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-2924","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\/2924","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=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2940,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/2940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}