{"id":6121,"date":"2013-07-17T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2013-07-17T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T12:02:14","slug":"knitting-and-engineering-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6121","title":{"rendered":"Knitting and engineering statistics."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that one class you took. You know, the one where you worked your arse off just to pass. Engineering statistics, anyone? Just me? okay well, the second muppet sock is kind of like that. I KNEW that pleasant striping was possible, I just had to start the cast on at the right place. I cast on no less than 15 times. I&#8217;m not kidding. There was a week in there where all I did was cast on for these socks and knit the first 8 rows to see how the striping would play over and over and over again.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6122\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5708-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Muppet sock\" title=\"Muppet sock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5708-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5708-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5708.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ewww. big pool of green.<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nIn the end, I figured it out and I&#8217;ve never been so proud of 8 rows of ribbing in all my born days. If you&#8217;re going to knit socks with this yarn, for the love of all that is wooly, make a note somewhere of what color you began the cast on with for the first sock.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6123\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6123\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5712-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Muppet Sock\" title=\"Muppet Sock\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5712-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5712-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_5712.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WINNING!<\/p><\/div><br \/>To see what others are working on, check out: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/tamisamis.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tami&#8217;s Amis<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsheller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Things<\/a> (I&#8217;m still listening to &#8220;The Amen Solution&#8221; and as far as health\/diet books go, I recommend it.)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that one class you took. You know, the one where you worked your arse off just to pass. Engineering statistics, anyone? Just me? okay well, the second muppet sock is kind of like that. I KNEW that pleasant striping was possible, I just had to start the cast on at the right [&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-6121","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\/6121","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=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6131,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions\/6131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}