{"id":4874,"date":"2013-03-13T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2013-03-13T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:03:57","slug":"the-39th-point-an-iknitarod-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"The 39th Point: An Iknitarod Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was happily knitting along on my Lochness hitchhiker<\/a>. I had the pattern memorized. I had plenty of yarn. “What could go wrong?” This is like that point in a horror film when someone says, “I’ll be write back.” and you know they’re not coming back.
\nOn the last row of point 38, I switched to the second ball of yarn and knit 4-6 rows and then I went back to weave in the ends. A fine idea. I was pleased with how they disappeared.
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Then I picked up the needles to continue knitting point 39. Sons of anarchy! Ten stitches had slipped off the needles! That’s scarey. I picked them up. Whew! crisis averted. I’m a rockstar. wait. where is my row counter? I had a row counter. It tells me what row I’m on. Where the devil is the row counter?!? I begin to dig in the blankets because I’m sitting in bed watching tv and knitting. I find the row counter and it is at that point that I realize that finding it will not tell me what row I’m on. Sweet Fancy Moses, that sucks.
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Had I just finished row 4 or row 6? I tried to read the knitting. ummmm.yea. I don’t know. This is my first garter stitch knit since I learned to knit years ago. I could google it, but where the points are throws me off knowing which row I should even be counting from. I start the bind offs for the point and analyze. That looks too soon. I unknit and add the extra two rows and start the point again. After finishing that row, I fold it over and measure the valley between points 38 and 39 against the valley between points 37 and 38. They seem to match. and I’m back in the game!
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I was able to finish Tuesday evening and I really like how the points of the shadows turned out in the pictures….just like a Lochness monster! Now, it just needs a bath, some serious blocking and Nessie will be off to her forever home.
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Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out Tami’s Amis<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was happily knitting along on my Lochness hitchhiker. I had the pattern memorized. I had plenty of yarn. “What could go wrong?” This is like that point in a horror film when someone says, “I’ll be write back.” and you know they’re not coming back. On the last row of point 38, I switched […]<\/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":[244,245,196],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-hitchhiker","tag-martina-behm","tag-wip-wednesday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","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=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4893,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}