{"id":101,"date":"2009-03-23T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:59:00","slug":"%e2%80%98arwen-cardi%e2%80%99-gone-awry-run-amok%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":">\u2018Arwen Cardi\u2019 gone awry, run amok\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m not going to talk about the \u2018Arwen Cardi\u2019 just yet\u2026. First I want to talk about positive<\/em> things!<\/p>\n

My husband (Bob<\/a>) and I just spent four days in Portland, Maine, which was a first for both of us. What a pretty city! We both thoroughly loved the Art Museum, and Bob enjoyed the Maine Boat Builders\u2019 Show while I happily visited three yarn shops and a weaving shop! What a wonderful surprise for me to find that Tess\u2019 Yarn<\/a> has moved into a retail space in Portland. I was actually alone <\/em>with owner and mother of Tess, Melinda, in the shop on Saturday afternoon after years<\/em> of not being able to get anywhere near her wares in her booth at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival! And what did I do with that whole shop to myself??? I freaked\u2026.I completely shut down and could not choose a color. There was no way<\/em> I was leaving that shop empty handed though, so I finally chose three skeins of neutral colored yarn as well as a pattern.\"portland<\/a> In spite of my resolution not to buy any yarn or fiber this year, I felt I was contributing in the smallest way<\/em> to keeping these wonderful local yarn shops in business by purchasing just a bit of yarn and some patterns and needles. Am I not a master of justification?<\/p>\n

At Knitting Central I bought sock yarn, needles and a pattern for a moebius (\u201cOmega Wrap\u201d by Christina Bylsma). I actually left on this trip without a knitting project! I had just finished the most recent Swallowtail and the Arwen Cardi (more on that shortly) so I actually didn\u2019t have anything quite handy,<\/em> although I do have more UFOs than I can count in one lifetime\u2026\"portland<\/a> <\/p>\n

I am already beginning the toe decreases on this sock, and it feels like this sock materialized out of thin air because I did all the knitting during times when I don\u2019t normally knit! I started it while walking around the Boat Builders\u2019 Show. I continued while having coffee in a coffee shop, and I continued through the whole ride home on Sunday. I wasn\u2019t as fast as when I\u2019m not walking around, but I still accomplished most of a sock during times when I normally do nothing at all! <\/p>\n

At KnitWits I bought two skeins of sock yarn: Regia\u2019s Design Line Kaffe Fassett in color 4454 and Louet\u2019s \u2018Gems\u2019 in eggplant. I will use these yarns to make the cover socks from The Eclectic Sole<\/em> by Jane Laidman.\"Eclectic<\/a> \"portland<\/a> <\/p>\n

I also bought two skeins of Louet sport weight linen in a lovely green that will someday become a shawl, probably the Icarus shawl by Miriam Felton.<\/p>\n

Well, now I\u2019ve shared all that good news, and I should begin to talk about my Arwen Cardi debacle. But I\u2019m out of time! Until next time, suffice it to say that I wanted to wear it in Portland so I stayed up well after midnight into the wee hours of the day of departure to finish the collar I had designed and sew on the zipper. A quick trip to the large bathroom mirror at 2 am gave me a horrible shock! I need to photograph the Arwen nightmare in order for anyone to fully comprehend the problem, so I\u2019ll do that shortly and report back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> I\u2019m not going to talk about the \u2018Arwen Cardi\u2019 just yet\u2026. First I want to talk about positive things! My husband (Bob) and I just spent four days in Portland, Maine, which was a first for both of us. What a pretty city! We both thoroughly loved the Art Museum, and Bob enjoyed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-yarn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}