{"id":1540,"date":"2013-01-06T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2013-01-06T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T16:47:49","slug":"1540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The best made plans…. \u00a0I’ve looked forward to being home so much for so long, yet I’ve spent almost the entire month at home sick! \u00a0And I’ve had one rather big disappointment in a tapestry project…..<\/p>\n

….but the upside is that in spite of being sick, my kids spent most of the month with us. \u00a0It was beyond wonderful to have time with them! \u00a0And I’ve gotten some weaving and some knitting done. \u00a0We’ve had some awesome meals, and I guess I will credit being sick with what has kept me from gaining weight (always the silver lining, right?)….<\/p>\n

So, with not much to show for myself, I’ll share a couple of good cartoons I stumbled on recently….<\/p>\n

From the New Yorker<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0and from ecards:<\/span><\/p>\n

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

I did my bit on fiber purchases. \u00a0I have a wonderful LYS called Yarns Down Under<\/a>, in Deep River. \u00a0During my visit I learned that Filature di Crosa’s “127 Print” is being discontinued (sigh) so I bought two colors to make a cardigan. \u00a0I bought the black and the periwinkle blue, and I plan to use them in a vertically striped cardigan based on “Designs by Judith” pattern called “Buenos Aires” that called for Manos del Uraguay.<\/p>\n

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

So this takes a bit of imagination…. I am knitting not quite random vertical stripes in my two colorways instead of the two-color stitch pattern used in Judith’s design. \u00a0I just love the shaping of this sweater and hope it will turn out well in a striped stockinette stitch. \u00a0Although the gauge is the same, my fabric will be considerably softer since it is not a texture stitch. \u00a0Wish me luck!<\/p>\n

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

And while licking my wounds about my weaving disappointments, I found this in my inbox today:<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.<\/em>\u201d –Dalai Lama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best made plans…. \u00a0I’ve looked forward to being home so much for so long, yet I’ve spent almost the entire month at home sick! \u00a0And I’ve had one rather big disappointment in a tapestry project….. ….but the upside is that in spite of being sick, my kids spent most of the month with us. […]<\/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":[28,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-knitting","category-tapestry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}