{"id":5604,"date":"2013-05-08T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2013-05-08T07:19:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T12:19:05","slug":"i-knit-therefore-i-am-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5604","title":{"rendered":"I knit therefore I am&#8230;.more humble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, I really enjoy dropping stitches. It&#8217;s the same feeling I used to get when a teacher would suddenly announce that a test was open-book. Legal cheating?!? wheeee!!!  So, I&#8217;m on my just dropped some stitches high, and I&#8217;m knitting along and the pattern says to knit the heel flap. About halfway through the heel flap, I realize that the stockinette fabric is thin. Too thin for a heel &#8211; these will be worn out in no time and since they&#8217;re a gift, that simply will not do.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5265-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Stockinette Heel\" title=\"Stockinette Heel\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5265-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5265-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_5265.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>Now, I&#8217;m, at the very least, an intermediate sock knitter, so I get a little smug and rip back the heel flap, I read a little bit of the The Knitter&#8217;s Book of Socks and begin again with a lovely slip stitch flap. I finish that up, admire my handy work and then go back to the pattern to see what she has planned next&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>&#8230;only to realize that the pattern ACTUALLY says that I should have done a slip stitch heel to begin with. Nice. At this point, I realize that I have two pattern reading modes:<br \/>\n&#8211; Test and complex knitting mode, where I read every comma, every word, every stitch.<br \/>\n&#8211; and evidently pattern scan mode where I assume I know what it says. In case you&#8217;re wondering, this is not the most efficient way to knit.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_52701-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zombie Sock\" title=\"Zombie Sock\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_52701-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_52701-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_52701.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/Kat1e\/night-of-the-living-sock\" title=\"Mine raveled here\" target=\"_blank\">Mine raveled here<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>Ps. To see what other folks are working on, go check out <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things Yarn Along<\/a> (I&#8217;m listening to\/reading &#8220;The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel Alive&#8221; audio book &#8211; so far, I give it a 6.5\/10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, I really enjoy dropping stitches. It&#8217;s the same feeling I used to get when a teacher would suddenly announce that a test was open-book. Legal cheating?!? wheeee!!! So, I&#8217;m on my just dropped some stitches high, and I&#8217;m knitting along and the pattern says to knit the heel flap. About halfway through the heel [&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":[276,64,24,275,283,66,284,196],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-claire-de-lune","tag-dizzy-lettuce","tag-knit","tag-lichen","tag-night-of-the-living-socks","tag-sock-yarn","tag-walking-dead","tag-wip-wednesday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","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=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}