{"id":452,"date":"2010-06-08T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=452"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:24:14","slug":"perpetual-ketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/perpetual-ketchup\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual Ketchup."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you spend most of your day just trying to catch up?  <\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt from NaBloPoMo is:<br \/>\n<strong>You&#8217;ve just been given a million dollars. You are not allowed to keep it or give it to anyone you know personally. What do you do with it and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many schemes of wire transfers and a new yarn shop dance through my mind, but ultimately, I&#8217;d choose a charity to donate it to.  Since Memphis is home to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjude.org\">St. Jude Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a> which is the top child cancer research center in the country, it would probably go there.  As long as I didn&#8217;t have to actually visit the children&#8217;s cancer ward.  Just thinking about that makes me so teary eyed I can&#8217;t see straight.<\/p>\n<p>On to less sad things &#8211; a finished object!  It&#8217;s crochet, not knit, and took 3 days from start to finish &#8211; maybe 10 hours at the very most?  It is <a href\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/patterns\/library\/walden-2\">Walden<\/a>, out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/people\/udontcallmeles\/stash\/wasonga\">Curious Creek Fibers in Wasonga<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1291\/4680680831_a1a3b966c8.jpg\" alt=\"Front View, drapey\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is actually long enough to wrap and tie in the back:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1272\/4680681287_009aac885a.jpg\" alt=\"Wrapped front\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4681315700_98503ed79c.jpg\" alt=\"Rear View\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And then, since I was upstairs anyway to photo the shawl, I decided to catch up on adding yarns to my stash.  Here&#8217;s my setup:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4002\/4680683287_2992586205.jpg\" alt=\"Photo setup\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And a closer view of the giant pile of stuff to work through:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4072\/4681317230_620d1591f2.jpg\" alt=\"Yarn Pile\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I do not have enough yarn.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you spend most of your day just trying to catch up? Today&#8217;s prompt from NaBloPoMo is: You&#8217;ve just been given a million dollars. You are not allowed to keep it or give it to anyone you know &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/perpetual-ketchup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[231,223,235,166,314],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crochet","tag-nablopomo","tag-photography","tag-shawl","tag-stash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}