{"id":69,"date":"2006-02-28T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2006\/02\/28\/the-agony-of-defeat\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T21:07:00","slug":"the-agony-of-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/the-agony-of-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Agony of Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, if anyone wants to make us a button that’s a subtle riff on the Yarn Harlot’s gold medal (her statuesque knitter being hung by her own skein, perhaps) please be my guest–and let me know.<\/p>\n

However, I thought I’d start a rolling blog entry and let those of us who bit the big tamale at least have a forum where we can post what we managed to finish.<\/p>\n

In that effort, I’m posting this, my second panel. Such as it is.
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I am joined in the Loosers Pub O’Despair (and wouldn’t you rather be hanging with us than in the winner’s circle?) by Ms. L. Ward who said of her pic: <\/p>\n

Here’s a picture of my hat at the closing ceremonies. Not too shabby looking but the needles don’t feel real good when you’re wearing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Indeed.<\/p>\n

Mz. Mar weighed in with this:<\/p>\n

I’m joining you! After 4 false starts the Jaywalkers bit the dust! They were
too big at the cuff ..had trouble with the toes~
I was a Olympic drop-out!!
Mz Mar Sew What?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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And Elizabeth in Norway said:<\/p>\n

Soooooo close! I call these my “Team Wales Olympic Socks”, designed by me and using a heel I had never used before.<\/p>\n

What I learned:
It is extremely uncomfortable to knit with half the skin gone from the tip of your left thumb (allergies acting up – but in reaction to what? Please, not my knitting!)<\/p>\n

It is a waste of time trying to knit an unfamiliar heel when you are on a bus and the pattern is at home. The whole heel had to go straight to the frogpond when I got home!<\/p>\n

Don’t suggest a meeting “Friday or Monday” when you really need the knitting time on Friday – Murphy’s law will make sure the meeting gets scheduled on Friday.<\/p>\n

If you are knitting a 36-stitch heel following a short row pattern on 26 heel stitches that has an 8-stitch point, this is roughly 1\/3 of the stitches. Roughly 1\/3 of the heel stitches is a very good place to stop decreasing and start increasing again. 8 stitches is NOT roughly 1\/3 of 36 stitches, and will be too pointy. <\/p>\n

I will also have a few comments on “festive knitting” on my blog in a few days. It was perfect for the dragons, but there are pitfalls to avoid.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth in Norway
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Anyone else suffer the agony of defeat? Send your pic and sob story\/description to Gillian (at) AOL (dot) com!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, if anyone wants to make us a button that’s a subtle riff on the Yarn Harlot’s gold medal (her statuesque knitter being hung by her own skein, perhaps) please be my guest–and let me know. However, I thought I’d start a rolling blog entry and let those of us who bit the big tamale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}