{"id":449,"date":"2013-08-31T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-08-31T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-31T21:50:10","slug":"ready-aim-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/31\/ready-aim-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready, aim, fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is one of my favourite times of the knitting year. <a href=\"http:\/\/socksniper.com\/\">Sock Sniper<\/a> begins and I (hopefully, if all goes to plan) get to kill someone with a pair of socks.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t get the orange cabled socks done in time, but one of them is finished, so the needles are free. I was getting impatient to start, so I did some swatching. It got a little out of hand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/swatch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-450\" alt=\"swatch\" src=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/swatch-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/swatch-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/swatch.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried every size of sock needle I have from 3.25m down to 1.5mm. The weapons this year need to adhere strictly to gauge and there are a variety of gauges to match. I will probably not be going for the 9.5 stitches to the inch socks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to get a good night&#8217;s sleep (children permitting) ready to cast on after work tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I have got a ticket to <a href=\"http:\/\/yarndale.co.uk\/\">Yarndale<\/a> at the end of September, and a day&#8217;s knitting course with Amy Singer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\">Knitty<\/a>. Woo hoo!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If my sniper is stalking me, welcome to my blog. Please do leave a comment. I look forward to hearing from you (in a while).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow is one of my favourite times of the knitting year. Sock Sniper begins and I (hopefully, if all goes to plan) get to kill someone with a pair of socks. I didn&#8217;t get the orange cabled socks done in time, but one of them is finished, so the needles are free. I was getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting-swaps","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"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=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}