{"id":169,"date":"2008-06-04T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2008-06-04T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T07:20:00","slug":"not-a-natural-lace-knitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Not a natural lace-knitter."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Moonlight Sonata Shawl <\/a>that I so blithely cast on at the Oxford Bluestockings KAL last weekend is proving itself to be my knitting nemesis.<\/p>\n

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The problem could be that I have selected a yarn that, while utterly gorgeous, loves nothing more than to obscure stitches and cling to itself in inscrutable clumps of yarny defiance. Much tinking – I think more tinking than knitting – has taken place since I got beyond the 83 rows that begin the collar of the shawl.<\/p>\n

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I was having such a lovely time with the little socks and sandwiches of recent times; I wonder why I felt the need to try and expand my knitting capabilities into that trickiest and harshest realm of knitting disciplines: The Knitting of the Lace.<\/p>\n

I am tangled up in blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m assured all will be easier if I can master the ability to read charts. Fat chance, says I. Going through a pattern line by line somehow makes more sense to me than a chart… the way lace charts work back and forth tangles up my head so it feels as twisted as my Yarn Overs. Which is where the real trouble lies.<\/p>\n

I never really learned how to do YOs properly, so I wind the wool around the needle and it makes a twist in the stitch which then pulls the next row out of shape and so on until my lace is a snarled mass of twisted wool. Observe the assymmetrical lace tangledom around the central divide on the shawl pattern;<\/p>\n

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Maybe nobody else will notice my YO indiscrections, but I will know <\/span>and I will be upset by them<\/span>. Which is why I have frogged back to the collar-band and vowed to learn how to do YOs and follow lace charts! In the meantime, I am planning some less ambitious knitting projects to restore my dented mojo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Moonlight Sonata Shawl that I so blithely cast on at the Oxford Bluestockings KAL last weekend is proving itself to be my knitting nemesis. The problem could be that I have selected a yarn that, while utterly gorgeous, loves nothing more than to obscure stitches and cling to itself in inscrutable clumps of yarny […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-2J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}