{"id":2382,"date":"2013-10-27T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2013-10-29T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T18:40:46","slug":"231-mitred-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=2382","title":{"rendered":"231 Mitred Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"

All these years while my Zig Zag ruana was stuffed in a zippered vinyl project bag, I thought I only had a few squares left to knit\u2026.maybe 15.\u00a0 I remember thinking I was so close to the end.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why I always thought I\u2019d pick it up again right after whatever current project was on my needles.\u00a0 I could be wearing it in just a matter of days\u2026<\/p>\n

Yesterday I counted how many squares I have left to knit\u2026. 86<\/strong>!\u00a0 How could that be? Even on the chart it looks like I\u2019m approaching the end!\u00a0 So I decided to count how many squares I\u2019d already finished.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t believe I\u2019d knitted 231 squares<\/em> back in the fall and winter of 2002\/2003.\u00a0 That\u2019s a LOT of little mitred squares!<\/p>\n

I remember one of my knitting friends warning me that this project involved a LOT of knitting.\u00a0 Naturally, I took no heed and can barely remember the warning much less who warned me.\u00a0 I was happily knitting.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019m back to it, I am slowly remembering lots of other things too.<\/p>\n

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This was the fall that my older son went away to college.\u00a0 I missed him terribly, but there was a wonderful silver lining that I had not anticipated.\u00a0 My younger son and I suddenly had some uninterrupted time together.\u00a0 It was the year that he toured colleges, took his SATs, wrote his applications.\u00a0 We went on college visits together, and I brought along my knitting\u2026.this very project.\u00a0 It had not grown to the dimensions it is now which make it somewhat cumbersome for traveling.\u00a0 We visited schools in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England.\u00a0 We had that unexpected time to become closer.<\/p>\n

It was the last few months before he got his driver\u2019s license so I was still his main companion in the car, and I was the one who accompanied him when he drove places with his learner\u2019s permit, such as the physical therapist I mentioned earlier.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that everyone takes notice of the wonderful time you have with your firstborn, before there are siblings who require you to divide your attentions. Surely it\u2019s a mother\u2019s point of view to romanticize this special time with a firstborn that no other child gets. \u00a0But I think the time I had alone with my younger 16 year old was equally precious\u2026.because he was aware of it too.\u00a0 We both enjoyed getting to know each other more deeply, and he had my complete attention while he navigated the rite of passage out into the world and determined who he wanted to become.\u00a0 It was a significant time of life for both of us, and I was moved to have time with Chris during this stage.<\/p>\n

And all through that period I was knitting the ‘Zig Zag.’ \u00a0Chris graduated from high school over 10 years ago. \u00a0He finished his undergraduate work in math and physics and is now in his 5th<\/sup> year of a doctoral program in physics. \u00a0He has become the person he planned to be.\u00a0 He is almost finished writing his dissertation and will probably be out of academia in a few more weeks.\u00a0 There is a lot of life that has happened while this ruana lay in its project bag, buried in my studio in New Jersey, and then my new studio in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Such is the life of a knitting project\u2026.everything completes itself in its own time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All these years while my Zig Zag ruana was stuffed in a zippered vinyl project bag, I thought I only had a few squares left to knit\u2026.maybe 15.\u00a0 I remember thinking I was so close to the end.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why I always thought I\u2019d pick it up again right after whatever current project was […]<\/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":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","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=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}