{"id":79,"date":"2008-09-04T16:54:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T23:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:24:36","slug":"occasionally-i-finish-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/occasionally-i-finish-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Occasionally I finish things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Spey Valley by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2825757233\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3025\/2825757233_79468f8861.jpg\" alt=\"Spey Valley\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pattern: Spey Valley from Nancy Bush&#8217;s Knitting on the Road<br \/>\nYarn: Plymouth Happy Feet, I don&#8217;t recall the color<br \/>\nMods: I did my own heel, shortened the leg and used a standard French (?) toe.<br \/>\nTime to knit: FOR-FREAKIN&#8217;-EVER.<\/p>\n<p>Turned out nice, they&#8217;re pretty comfy. It was the wrong yarn to use for this pattern, a plain color would have shown the very nice pattern on the leg, which is lost in this variegated yarn. Still, I&#8217;m pleased with them.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;m working on the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"WIPS by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2826595768\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3078\/2826595768_2f7f46df35.jpg\" alt=\"WIPS\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left are Malvina&#8217;s birthday socks, the eponymous Embossed Leaves socks in a sassy orange from Cherry Tree Hill. Then, in Tofutsies, is the Undulating Rib. Both these socks are in the Interweave Favorite Socks book.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I like working with the Cherry Tree Hill, it has a weird texture. But, the color is great, and let&#8217;s face it, I&#8217;m happy enough to be working with Red Heart, so whatever.  I quite like the Tofutsies; I&#8217;m glad I have another sock (and another skein, courtesy of the Momma)  to work on &#8211; the fabric is nice. I forget what chitin is (ground up sea slugs or something) but I like it.<\/p>\n<p>From here on out, it&#8217;s pretty much going to be Christmas related projects, which I am totally going to blog about because that&#8217;s how I roll. I just won&#8217;t say who they&#8217;re for, hah. I think I&#8217;ll be trying out some fingerless mitt patterns, and hat time for sure. I owe Sam a hat for his birthday (since he lost another one I made him) and there will be some weaving projects for Christmas as well.  The project I am currently working on is going well &#8211; I really got better tension this time around, so practice really does make perfect.<\/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\/2008\/09\/occasionally-i-finish-things\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pattern: Spey Valley from Nancy Bush&#8217;s Knitting on the Road Yarn: Plymouth Happy Feet, I don&#8217;t recall the color Mods: I did my own heel, shortened the leg and used a standard French (?) toe. Time to knit: FOR-FREAKIN&#8217;-EVER. Turned out nice, they&#8217;re pretty comfy. It was the wrong yarn to use for this pattern, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/occasionally-i-finish-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occasionally I finish things&#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":[3,4,17],"tags":[49,264,270,271,131],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-knitting","category-socks","tag-fos","tag-malvina","tag-nancy-bush-designs","tag-sam","tag-wips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","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=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}