{"id":894,"date":"2011-11-14T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-11-14T23:20:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T03:20:54","slug":"crisis-of-knitted-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Crisis of knitted socks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite advice to the contrary, I ended up ripping half of each pink sock out and redoing it in smaller pattern. The socks are now finished with (very little) yarn to spare. Phew!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/6346495220\/\" title=\"CIMG7892 by bojnberry, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6050\/6346495220_3987f663d9.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"CIMG7892\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am a bit ambivalent about these. I remember being much more pleased with the blue socks I made last year around the same time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/5144235747\/\" title=\"CIMG6209 by bojnberry, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/5144235747_13058572d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"CIMG6209\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I still have to wash and wear the socks to see if I like them. I liked the blue socks quite a bit, but I still don&#8217;t know if I will continue to knit socks. It is a lot of work and, so far, the socks that I have knit have not proven to be more comfortable, maintainable or even better looking that store bought socks. I hear from people in the know that there is nothing better than hand knit socks so they are either off their rockers or I am doing something wrong. Shrug.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I really like knitted hats and scarves so knitting will continue. I might even move on to sweaters as I have become a veritable yarn snob as a side effect of knitting with good quality wool. Previously, I had no trouble buying and wearing acrylic, but during my last shopping trip I realized that I have developed an aversion. This leaves me with no purchased sweaters and winter coming. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bojnberry\/6337307543\/\" title=\"CIMG7873 by bojnberry, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6031\/6337307543_67f9836400.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"CIMG7873\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of acrylic, I have pulled out an old scarf I made in University and have made plans to turn it into a blanket kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/cauchycomplete.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/04\/i-umm-knit-a-blanket\/\">this one<\/a> (well, much, much smaller). I am very fond of this scarf as it reminds me of my halcyon days so I have no intention of throwing it out or giving it away and yet I neither wish to wear it nor keep it in a box forever. A little throw might be fun, but I still need to figure out how to make it into something pretty without taking it apart completely or making a bit mess. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite advice to the contrary, I ended up ripping half of each pink sock out and redoing it in smaller pattern. The socks are now finished with (very little) yarn to spare. Phew! I am a bit ambivalent about these. I remember being much more pleased with the blue socks I made last year around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-eq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}