{"id":199,"date":"2010-01-01T13:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T21:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-06-24T12:41:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T19:41:11","slug":"onwards-and-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/onwards-and-upwards\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwards and Upwards!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I haven&#8217;t blogged since Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year, folks! I think 2010 will be excellent.<\/p>\n<p>After falling off the health bandwagon mid-December thanks to holiday noshing I am raring to get back with it. Today happens to be Friday so I can reconfirm my commitment to health and wellness in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Also I will be thirty this year. :O<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I made a collage of the things I made last year. It&#8217;s missing the two hats I made my mom for Christmas, but you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"2009 FO mosaic by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/4232515111\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2780\/4232515111_df31f1b9a9.jpg\" alt=\"2009 FO mosaic\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of nice things last year! My favorite things are the shawls and the Liesl sweater. I got back into the hat mojo, and of those, I really like the alpaca ribbed hat I made myself (last pic on the 2nd-to-last row).<\/p>\n<p>This year I finally feel like knitting some sweaters. I have one that I&#8217;m currently working on on my knitting machine, and one that I am working on by hand &#8211; a top down version in worsted weight yarn of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/gathered-pullover\" target=\"_blank\">Gathered Pullover<\/a> from the Winter 2007 Interweave Knits. I actually splurged, crazily, and got myself enough Dream in Color Classy (in my favorite colorway, Happy Forest) to make a sweater with Christmas money. I also got enough Berroco Ultra Alpaca in a gorgeous deep teal to make another Liesl. So I&#8217;m going to roll with the sweater making while it&#8217;s hitting because it doesn&#8217;t happen all that often.<\/p>\n<p>2010 will again be a year of Knitting What I Want To Knit, When I Want To Knit It. I am looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<p>I still have to finish up a couple of projects for my sister for the quilt she made me, which is taking longer than I wish, but&#8230; I really don&#8217;t like making stuff for other people on a deadline so I kind of barf out projects here and there for her. I&#8217;m almost done with a pair of socks for her, then next I will make a hat, then next another pair of socks out of the hot pink and green Shibui Sock.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, other than the Abby knitting I don&#8217;t really have a rhyme or reason for what I plan on making this year. Last year I had no idea I&#8217;d make shawls, but I did &#8211; 3 of them. I also didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d ever make a sweater, but I did! And I like it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>This year I do plan on trying to knit down the stash. (She said, enthusiastically if, honestly, unrealistically) I have, recently, acquired Christmas stash, which was dumb, but fun! I&#8217;ll take a picture later.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to blog more, but interesting things have to happen. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/onwards-and-upwards\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oops, I haven&#8217;t blogged since Thanksgiving! Happy New Year, folks! I think 2010 will be excellent. After falling off the health bandwagon mid-December thanks to holiday noshing I am raring to get back with it. Today happens to be Friday so I can reconfirm my commitment to health and wellness in 2010. Also I will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/onwards-and-upwards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Onwards and Upwards!&#8221;<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-knitting","tag-fos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}