{"id":6317,"date":"2013-08-14T04:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2013-08-13T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T03:28:11","slug":"sabotaged-by-my-subconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6317","title":{"rendered":"Sabotaged by my subconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. My subconscious thinks I am lacking in blog fodder enough that it is conspiring against me. At least that&#8217;s my story. I split the 72 stitches of this sock into 32 stitches for the front of the socks and 40 for the back. Now, you math geniuses are thinking, that&#8217;s interesting. I wonder what kind of pattern doesn&#8217;t have you split the stitches in half. And the answer is, I don&#8217;t know, but not this one.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0538-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Take 1\" title=\"Take 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0538-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0538-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take 1 - unsuccessful<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe chart has a section of 4 stitches that repeat and I ended up with four extra stitches on the back set of dpn&#8217;s and then managed not to notice for SIX repeats of the pattern. I analyzed all kinds of (insane) solutions before I bit the bullet and ripped back to the ribbing.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_6321\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6321\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0556-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Take 2\" title=\"Take 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0556-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/IMG_0556-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take 2 - successful<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nMy theory is that I normally knit the 64 stitch size in Hunter&#8217;s socks and I wasn&#8217;t paying attention, so I did 32 on the first set of DPN&#8217;s thinking that was half. The good news is that I knit the cast on tail through 32 stitches, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=6278\" title=\"that bad boy is never coming loose\" target=\"_blank\">so that bad boy is never coming loose<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pattern:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/lycaena-virgaureae-sock\" target=\"_blank\">Lycaena virgaureae Socks<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/violentlydomestic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\nYarn: Schaefer Yarn Company Heather &#8211; Apple Green<\/p>\n<p>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 reading The Selection &#8211; It seems like a combo of The Hunger Games and Bachelor tv show&#8230;I&#8217;m not crazy impressed so far.)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/frontierdreams.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Dreams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. My subconscious thinks I am lacking in blog fodder enough that it is conspiring against me. At least that&#8217;s my story. I split the 72 stitches of this sock into 32 stitches for the front of the socks and 40 for the back. Now, you math geniuses are thinking, that&#8217;s interesting. I wonder what [&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":[22,296,252,320,322,196,325],"class_list":["post-6317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-keep-calm-craft-on","tag-knit-socks","tag-lycaena-virgaureae","tag-schaefer-yarn","tag-wip-wednesday","tag-yarnalong"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317","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=6317"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6317\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}