{"id":629,"date":"2010-04-06T11:07:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T01:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2019-06-16T10:43:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T00:43:11","slug":"guilt-knitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/guilt-knitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt knitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/KidHatWIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-631\" title=\"KidHatWIP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/KidHatWIP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/KidHatWIP.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/KidHatWIP-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been starting to think about writing down the knitting patterns buzzing &#8217;round my head. I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/im-very-proud\/\">once<\/a> before.<\/p>\n<p>This means, for the first time ever, I&#8217;ve bought wool <em>just for swatching<\/em>. I feel irrational guilt about it. You see, after swatching, some wool turned out too thick, or the slubs didn&#8217;t look right, or the whole idea won&#8217;t work, at least not now, not easily, not &#8217;till I think about it some more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a big stasher, I&#8217;ve 2.5 average-sized plastic boxes full of wool. (Ok, technically I should say &#8220;yarn&#8221;, but most of it&#8217;s actually wool). That&#8217;s my everything, all my half begun; abandoned; dreamt about but still untouched knit projects as an adult. I pretty much always have a plan for the wool I buy, even if that plan changes like, 5 or 6 times!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been feeling really guilty about my <em>just for swatching<\/em> wool. And hurrying madly to find a project for it. Yeah, I fully agree that&#8217;s irrational, but it&#8217;s how I feel.<\/p>\n<p>Mustaa villaa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mustaavillaa.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/three-reasons-to-love-garter-stripe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hat pattern<\/a> is perfect for this situation, especially since it calls for 8ply\/DK. If you&#8217;re Aussie you know that&#8217;s the most common weight here &#8230; by far. I&#8217;m really enjoying mixing the colours for the band, and looking forward to a guilt free knitting future. And to finally telling the kids, when I&#8217;m near the end: &#8220;Oh, yes, this one&#8217;s for you&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been starting to think about writing down the knitting patterns buzzing &#8217;round my head. I did once before. This means, for the first time ever, I&#8217;ve bought wool just for swatching. I feel irrational guilt about it. You see, after swatching, some wool turned out too thick, or the slubs didn&#8217;t look right, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[180,163,181,182,143,238,110,178,179],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit","tag-8plydk","tag-beginner","tag-childs","tag-hat","tag-kids","tag-knitting","tag-pattern","tag-swatches","tag-wool"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}