{"id":88,"date":"2008-09-05T12:14:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2008-09-05T12:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:14:29","slug":"gussets-are-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/gussets-are-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Gussets are evil."},"content":{"rendered":"

Really, they are.\u00a0 I love knitting socks, but when it comes time for the gusset decreases, I can’t help but groan.\u00a0 On my current project, Digitessa, the gusset construction was unusual for two reasons.\u00a0 First, it’s a toe up sock.\u00a0 Second, the gusset had it’s own pattern construction (i.e., not just stockingette).\u00a0 I figured I’d sail right through these, and I did, until the heel flap.\u00a0 I had to take the socks off the magic loop needle and onto DPN’s for the heel flap (already that puts me in a bad mood) and subsequently had to rip out the heel twice to get it right.\u00a0 Now the heels are done and they’re back on the one needle.\u00a0 Phew!<\/p>\n

It’s nearly impossible to photograph these because of the richness of the colorway without natural sunlight, and since that’s been nonexistent this week, here are the best pictures I can give you:<\/p>\n

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So that’s been my past week’s worth of knitting.\u00a0 Seems like I should have more done, right? I should.\u00a0 And today I start Mystery Stole #4, so that’ll be my first lace and beading project (might end disastrously).\u00a0 If you haven’t signed up, you should!\u00a0 Go HERE<\/a> to sign up.<\/p>\n

In other news, I was pleasantly surprised to come home to a surprise on Tuesday.\u00a0 Michael had to work late, and when Kobe and I walked in, I found these waiting for me:<\/p>\n

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Sometimes, the flowers are mightier than the diamond.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Really, they are.\u00a0 I love knitting socks, but when it comes time for the gusset decreases, I can’t help but groan.\u00a0 On my current project, Digitessa, the gusset construction was unusual for two reasons.\u00a0 First, it’s a toe up sock.\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/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":[100,316,20],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-best-fiance-ever","tag-knitting","tag-socks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theknitgirllls.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}