{"id":657,"date":"2009-03-17T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=657"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:42:00","slug":"wow-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wow-2\/","title":{"rendered":"WOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml'>Because I&#8217;m insane, and probably because I&#8217;m teaching at the Sock Summit, I figure that&#8211;truth in advertising and all&#8211;I should probably know how to knit a <a href='http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEfall06\/FEATextreme2in1.html' target='_blank'>sock inside a sock<\/a>. It&#8217;s a <a href='http:\/\/kelleypetkun.typepad.com\/yarn_rambles\/2007\/12\/extreme-knittin.html' target='_blank'>REALLY cool trick<\/a>, but it&#8217;s also pretty satisfying (there are even <a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GhiXmmrQ0aQ' target='_blank'>videos<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/lost-arts.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/knitting-two-socks-at-once.html' target='_blank'>pictures<\/a>). If I do this (still an if) I&#8217;m doing it worsted the first time out. <\/p>\n<p>I did that when I started socks proper and never regretted it&#8230;plus the husband got a nice pair of comfy socks in the bargain. Not bad. He also got a pair this Xmas in the Harry and Ron colorway from Opal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been making demo heels like a fiend out of ball ends (pedicure socks, anyone?)&#8230;and neglecting the rest of&#8230;you know&#8230; life, work, etc. But not the boys. They&#8217;ve been GREAT lately&#8230;must be the weather.<\/p>\n<p>On a different note, I finished &#8220;The Graveyard Book.&#8221; Gaiman has done it again. He&#8217;s really giving Will Smith a run for it on my list&#8230;decisions decisions.<\/p>\n<p>The novel I&#8217;m writing is closing in on finished. If only I could invent more time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Glory Be! I have work again. Actual, <i>Paying<\/i> work. I thank the gods on a fairly regular basis.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='scribefire-powered'>Powered by <a href='http:\/\/www.scribefire.com\/'>ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;m insane, and probably because I&#8217;m teaching at the Sock Summit, I figure that&#8211;truth in advertising and all&#8211;I should probably know how to knit a sock inside a sock. It&#8217;s a REALLY cool trick, but it&#8217;s also pretty satisfying (there are even videos and pictures). If I do this (still an if) I&#8217;m doing [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}