{"id":5799,"date":"2013-06-05T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2013-06-05T07:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T12:26:34","slug":"its-only-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=5799","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s only knitting&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t say that very often, but Friday night, I gave myself a talking to and that is what I said.<br \/>\nI was working on my gray socks and had just realized that a heel and two pattern repeats ago, I&#8217;d started doing left cable crosses instead of right. fyi: Knitting a different pattern in between sock 1 and 2 for mirrored patterns is a brilliant idea. I had to rip out a week&#8217;s worth of knitting and would miss the end of month Knit-a-Long deadline for sure.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5526.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5526-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Linaria Bipartita Socks\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5526-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5526-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5526.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5529-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Linaria Bipartita Socks (pattern by Hunter Hammersen)\" title=\"IMG_5529\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5529-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5529-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_5529.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>But, as I&#8217;d just learned that four Houston Firefighters were killed and five more injured, I decided that having to rip out knitting isn&#8217;t a real problem. I grew up in Houston and know a handful of HFD guys well. My heart goes out to all those that cared for the fallen firefighters and I pray that their memories will comfort them. I&#8217;m so sorry for their loss.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/485409_10152865694120191_76492759_n1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"485409_10152865694120191_76492759_n[1]\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/485409_10152865694120191_76492759_n1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/485409_10152865694120191_76492759_n1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/485409_10152865694120191_76492759_n1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>In a weird way, it made me feel a tad better to be ripping out work. As I violently ripped out row after row, it suited my mood.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things Yarn Along<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t say that very often, but Friday night, I gave myself a talking to and that is what I said. I was working on my gray socks and had just realized that a heel and two pattern repeats ago, I&#8217;d started doing left cable crosses instead of right. fyi: Knitting a different pattern in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[299,22,295,224,292],"class_list":["post-5799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-friends","category-knitting","tag-hfd","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-linaria-bipartita-socks","tag-plucky-knitter-primo-fingering","tag-the-plucky-knitter"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799","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=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5868,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}