{"id":88,"date":"2008-10-24T19:17:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T02:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:18:30","slug":"fail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/fail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"FAIL TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am going to Disneyland over Thanksgiving, and since it might be coldish in Anaheim at the end of November (a knitter can dream, right??), I thought I would knit myself a hat.<\/p>\n<p>I decided upon Ganomy from EZ&#8217;s Knitter&#8217;s Almanac.  A classic, right? And I decided to use my new Manos de Uruguay, which I just got because it is beautiful. These things added up to this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"GANOMY FAIL by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2970902470\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/2970902470_e86177af99.jpg\" alt=\"GANOMY FAIL\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks innocent enough.<\/p>\n<p>But ALAS, the yarn is too stiff on a size 7 needle and didn&#8217;t fit my big, Germanic noggin, even though I upsized the pattern like whoa. AND I started to run out of yarn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;O failure thou art mine&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I went as far as I could, then decreased at the top to finish it off. This was a mistake. I then vigorously blocked the everlasting shit out of that thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"GANOMY FAIL by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2970059841\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3023\/2970059841_848a1ea039_m.jpg\" alt=\"GANOMY FAIL\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the pointyness upon the crown. <strong>WTF?.<\/strong> AND, while vigorous blocking helped a little, the fact of the matter is, it is just too small for my head, even though it doesn&#8217;t look it.  It&#8217;s too short, for one thing. And the rapid decreases at the top don&#8217;t help.<\/p>\n<p>I am peeved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"GANOMY FAIL by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2970059683\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3135\/2970059683_f21efb1243.jpg\" alt=\"GANOMY FAIL\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PEEVED.<\/p>\n<p>So peeved, in fact, that I may actually FROG IT.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so now I&#8217;m working on another one in Malabrigo on a bigger needle and it looks much more promising:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ganomy Take 2 by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2970059197\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3031\/2970059197_31832dc977_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ganomy Take 2\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The yarn colors aren&#8217;t quite as awesome as the Manos but dudes, it is Malabrigo and therefore can do no wrong.<\/p>\n<p>SO: moral of the story is, you can half-ass most anything, but you need to be more careful around miters.  And use a bigger needle, damn it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>ARGH.<\/strong><\/em><\/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\/10\/fail-time\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I am going to Disneyland over Thanksgiving, and since it might be coldish in Anaheim at the end of November (a knitter can dream, right??), I thought I would knit myself a hat. I decided upon Ganomy from EZ&#8217;s Knitter&#8217;s Almanac. A classic, right? And I decided to use my new Manos de Uruguay, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/fail-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FAIL TIME&#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":[3,162,4],"tags":[268,49],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-hats","category-knitting","tag-failed-projects","tag-fos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}