{"id":305,"date":"2013-02-01T21:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=305"},"modified":"2013-02-01T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:00:42","slug":"in-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/01\/in-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"In brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy couple of months. Here are the highlights, because I guess it is better to write briefly than not at all.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I finished my old job just after a very hectic Christmas<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;ve moved house<\/li>\n<li>There was trouble with the kitchen floor (but I&#8217;d really rather not talk about it in detail and it is all ok now)<\/li>\n<li>The little girl started walking on moving day<\/li>\n<li>The little boy has settled into a new school with very little fuss<\/li>\n<li>We had snow and snowmen and sledging in our lovely new garden<\/li>\n<li>There are still cardboard boxes, although not many of them now (and I&#8217;ve done nearly all of mine)<\/li>\n<li>I started my new job this week<\/li>\n<li>I am excited, apprehensive, overwhelmed and loving it all at the same time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what has been happening outside the knitting world. You can understand why knitting progress has been slow. It has not, however, been non-existent.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I finished the socks for the Mr in time for Christmas (no photos yet since it was a close-run thing and he only found them in a box yesterday night)<\/li>\n<li>There was a lot of knitting goodness in my Christmas present pile, but I&#8217;ll come back to that<\/li>\n<li>I have knitted two thirds of a sock and I&#8217;ll come back to that too.<\/li>\n<li>I have cast on a Swirl. 545 stitches. Oh boy. At least I knew the trick of using two ends of the ball for a long-tail cast-on. Imagine getting to 544 and running out of yarn. Don&#8217;t expect this to be finished any time soon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, in an exciting turn of events, let&#8217;s move beyond knitting.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A friend of my Mum spent an evening teaching me to spin on a spindle.<\/li>\n<li>She gave me the spindle and some Icelandic wool to practice with<\/li>\n<li>Then she lent me a spinning wheel for a while. It&#8217;s (or are spinning wheels, like steam engines always referred to as &#8216;she&#8217;?) an Ashford Traveller<\/li>\n<li>Last week, someone from one of my new parishes rang me out of the blue offering babysitting and asking if the rumour was true that I was a knitter. She then said she was a spinner and would I like to try it.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a spinning group that meets once a month in an adjacent village. I met the lady that hosts it while taking my daughter to a toddler group. She noticed the hand-knit jumper that J was wearing (thank you again to J&#8217;s lovely Godmother).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s enough for now. I&#8217;m determined to have some of the evening with the needles and something relaxing on tv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a busy couple of months. Here are the highlights, because I guess it is better to write briefly than not at all. I finished my old job just after a very hectic Christmas We&#8217;ve moved house There was trouble with the kitchen floor (but I&#8217;d really rather not talk about it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,5,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finished-objects","category-misc","category-technique","category-wip","category-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}