{"id":9074,"date":"2017-07-25T22:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2017-07-25T22:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T03:09:53","slug":"adventures-of-an-escaped-cable-needle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?p=9074","title":{"rendered":"Adventures of an Escaped Cable Needle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, I was happily knitting on my Curl when the movie ended and I hopped up to put my knitting away instead of moving normally like most adults. My favorite wooden cable needle left its perch behind my ear, went flying and i heard it hit the tile floor. We had company over, so the four of us scoured the room and it was nowhere to be found. Our friends departed and I spent the next 45 minutes turning the area upside down. Maybe I&#8217;d misplaced it sooner than I thought so I looked back at the knitting. No such luck as I had used the needle 10 seconds prior to it going rogue. Now, I have other cable needles, but having one vanish into thin air was making me more than a little crazy. In the end, I gave up and went to bed.<br \/>\n<\/br>Saturday morning, before I rolled out of bed, I prayed to find my cable needle before I went completely mad. I&#8217;m not an every Sunday churchgoer (I normally attend around election time), but I absolutely believe in God and the power of prayer.<br \/>\n<\/br>While you are obviously welcome to believe as you wish, what follows are facts. A few minutes later, i went in the other room and thought, I should look at this from another angle. So, I moved the couch (and vacuumed because let&#8217;s be honest, it needed it. If nothing else, at least my house would be cleaner after this ordeal),  then reclined on the floor and looked up with a flashlight under the chair I&#8217;d been sitting in. There, in an almost hidden dark cavity within the chair peaked out the tiniest end of my cable needle! I got some tweezers and tried to get it out Operation style. Almost! Nope, i dropped it even further into the cavity and it was no longer visible. Oh well. At least I know where it is and a two year old Cheeto is now in the trash.<br \/>\n<\/br>Enter The Husband. I opened with, &#8220;Guess what? I found my needle!!! but it&#8217;s in the chair and it seems like it would be a big pain to take it apart and get it out. (i&#8217;m eyeing the bolts of the chair.) It&#8217;s only a $4 needle.&#8221; Now, there are many things to love about The Husband; my favorite is that when I say that something is impossible or difficult, he cracks a small smile and like Disney magic, it&#8217;s done. I was hoping against hope that he was going to deliver once again and hand me back my tiny wooden needle, but it really did seem like 8 bolts, grease and running the risk of breaking the chair, so I was nearing the end of my hopeline when he responded, &#8220;I put the chair together. I&#8217;m pretty sure I can get that out. It&#8217;s just two screws.&#8221; As he dropped the needle in my hand 10 minutes later, he said, &#8220;I just can&#8217;t believe you saw it in there.&#8221; Yes, that was the hard part.<br \/>\n<\/br>Now that my cable needle is safely back in its project bag pocket, let&#8217;s admire the socks I recently finished!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/aa_IMG_5468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9079\" \/><br \/>\nPattern: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/ensnared\" target=\"_blank\">Ensnared by Hunter Hammersen<\/a><br \/>\nYarn: Meadowcroft Dyeworks Rockshelter Sock<br \/>\nColorway: Guatemalanness<br \/>\nNeedles: 2.25mm DPN&#8217;s<br \/>\nPurchased from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quixoticfibers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quixotic Fibers<\/a> at DFW Fiber Fest<\/br><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a_IMG_5465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9081\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/a_IMG_5463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"314\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9078\" \/><\/br>And speaking of The Husband&#8217;s handiwork, he created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/?page_id=9061\">subscription option<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night, I was happily knitting on my Curl when the movie ended and I hopped up to put my knitting away instead of moving normally like most adults. My favorite wooden cable needle left its perch behind my ear, went flying and i heard it hit the tile floor. We had company over, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[452,516,494,462,411,22,517,12,518,66],"class_list":["post-9074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-dfw-fiber-fest","tag-ensnared","tag-hand-knit-socks","tag-hand-knitting","tag-handknit-socks","tag-hunter-hammersen","tag-meadowcroft-dyeworks","tag-ravelry","tag-rockshelter-sock-yarn","tag-sock-yarn"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074","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=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9108,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metzroth.com\/katie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}