{"id":103,"date":"2012-04-29T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-04-28T21:18:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T21:18:16","slug":"crafting-balance-and-a-perfect-crafting-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/04\/29\/crafting-balance-and-a-perfect-crafting-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Balance and A Perfect Crafting Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>The topic for today is to talk about the balance between knitting and crochet, but I think I covered that in yesterday’s post<\/a>, so I’m going to play my wildcard (3KCBWWC) and write on this topic instead:<\/p>\n

Craft Your Perfect Day<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My perfect knitting day would involve being on my own, away from the family. I would wake up bright and early in the morning, not worn out from feeding a baby in the middle of the night, and reach over to where my latest sock knitting was waiting for me. I’d put in a few rounds before getting up, possibly while listening to a podcast or two.<\/p>\n

I would spend the day mostly sitting in my favourite chair, without the cat jumping up to check on progress. There would be a DVD of West Wing or something similar on the TV and the phone would not ring.<\/p>\n

Around lunchtime I would finish the socks, photograph them and post to Ravelry. Then I would spend the afternoon immersed in pattern books and then browsing the stash to decide what to knit next.<\/p>\n

Crucially, between 5pm and 7pm I would be relaxed and listening to soothing classical music, while eating something quick and casting on the new project. I would not be going through the kids’ tea, bath and bedtime routine.<\/p>\n

The evening would continue, with more knitting, more tv and cups of decaff coffee magically appearing at regular intervals. At the end of the day, I would head off to sleep with a new Yarn Harlot book to read.<\/p>\n

Maybe in 10 years time I’ll get a day like this. Hopefully a bit sooner!<\/p>\n

Talking of finishing socks, here are the Eskarina Socks:<\/p>\n

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The topic for today is to talk about the balance between knitting and crochet, but I think I covered that in yesterday’s post, so I’m going to play my wildcard (3KCBWWC) and write on this topic instead: Craft Your Perfect Day My perfect knitting day would involve being on my own, away from the family. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3kcbwday7","tag-3kcbwwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}