{"id":2943,"date":"2013-08-14T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T22:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2943"},"modified":"2013-08-19T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:18:53","slug":"challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2943","title":{"rendered":"Challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that as I am almost certainly going to Rhinebeck, I need a Rhinebeck Sweater. I don&#8217;t think that leaving the buttons off my ski jacket until the 11th hour will cut it, so I&#8217;ll have to get planning&#8230; ideas on a postcard. Unless it&#8217;s for my teddy, it will probably have to be in chunky yarn&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other challenging knitting news, I&#8217;ve started on something I&#8217;ve been looking at for a few years. It didn&#8217;t look too hard in the pictures but this photo was taken after I&#8217;d made at least 3 attempts at the latest row&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-210913.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-210913.jpg\" alt=\"20130819-210913.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd so I was thinking &#8220;Holy crap, this thing is a lot harder than it looks&#8221;. It basically took me a day, admittedly with assorted trips top the washing machine and the playground, to do what you see here. Given that this is a long thin scarf stole thingy, we could be looking at updates of this thing for some time. Just sayin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this (see below) is growing like you wouldn&#8217;t believe. I cast on on the train on the way to work on Friday morning, and by the time I let up with Steve a 19:00 on Friday evening, I had something which, if draped in the right way and viewed in the right light, could already resemble a scarf. The fact that 90% of it is garter stitch helps a lot, plus the yarn is lovely (a gift from Our Debs, THANK YOU) helps a lot. This is very satisfying to do. And it&#8217;s draping like a beautiful drapey thing. It&#8217;s one of three things I have actively on the go at the moment, and as one is sweater for Diggy Digger, if I&#8217;m not finished with it by tomorrow teatime (my next Internet opportunity) you can probably kill me right there &#038; then&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-210945.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130819-210945.jpg\" alt=\"20130819-210945.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ps. we&#8217;re &#8220;away&#8221; hence the limited internet thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that as I am almost certainly going to Rhinebeck, I need a Rhinebeck Sweater. I don&#8217;t think that leaving the buttons off my ski jacket until the 11th hour will cut it, so I&#8217;ll have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-2943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-so-sos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2943"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2950,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2943\/revisions\/2950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jude.hanlon.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}