{"id":616,"date":"2015-07-04T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T09:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/?p=616"},"modified":"2015-07-04T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T09:56:27","slug":"tour-de-what-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/04\/tour-de-what-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de what now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the first few months of this year have been all about finishing things up, the last month has… er not.\u00a0 Now back up to 6 unfinished objects.<\/p>\n

I have two extra pairs of socks on the needles, both part of Tour de Sock, which I was determined to take part in only as a cheerleader, rather than competing, this year. The stage two pattern was a new technique for me: two colours (which I have done before), but including increases and decreases (this was the new bit).<\/p>\n

\"fairisleleaves\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was knitting along at my usual snail-like pace, with a new target of hoping to finish them before the end of the Tour (beginning of August), when Otilde<\/a> showed a picture of a possible combination of yarn and beads for stage four. I made a rash, tongue-in-cheek, comment along the lines of that being a terrible combination and she ought to get rid of them in my direction. The next thing I know, there is a parcel of yarn and beads on the doormat and I am committed to: “cast on with the rest of us when the pattern comes out, and do your level best to finish it before the deadline”.<\/p>\n

Day one of the pattern was a day off, so I knuckled down and had this by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

\"beadedsock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Day two was not so productive, but I now have a heel flap and turn.<\/p>\n

Day three (today) is for casting on the second sock, (and catching up with work). I’ll be happy if I have two or three repeats of the beading done by the end of the day.<\/p>\n

In other news, the Tour de France begins today, so that means that the Tour de Fleece begins too. The premise: the riders ride, we spin. I’m setting myself a beginner target of spinning for 10 minutes per day every day that the riders are active.<\/p>\n

I’ve begun to spin some undyed Wensleydale yarn, so that is the first thing to get on with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the first few months of this year have been all about finishing things up, the last month has… er not.\u00a0 Now back up to 6 unfinished objects. I have two extra pairs of socks on the needles, both part of Tour de Sock, which I was determined to take part in only as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trundlebug.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}