{"id":159,"date":"2007-09-10T23:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/exhausted-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T23:25:08","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T22:25:08","slug":"exhausted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/exhausted-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhausted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid I have been overdoing it again, I had hoped to post more frequently now on the shiny new blog but this last week or so has rather worn me out. I\u00c2\u00a0shall hope to be at least a little more coherent here than I have been in general the past few days &#8211; I hope you know what I mean to write even if I don&#8217;t quite manage to articulate it as well as I would wish.\u00c2\u00a0Despite my best efforts I haven&#8217;t managed to wedge any extra hours in the day yet. Also I am having to reluctantly admit that not sleeping in an attempt to gain more time for other things isn&#8217;t a particularly good long term solution. I am working on it!<\/p>\n<p>The stranded hat is crawling along &#8211; when I find those extra hours in the day I am going to use them for knitting. I have got to the second crown now so I feel the end is in sight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" title=\"Stranded Hat\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/strandedhat10thseptsmall.JPG\" alt=\"Stranded Hat\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>The two-handed knitting is definitely starting to feel a lot more natural and I am looking forward to finishing this and branching out into something a bit more complex. Talking of new techniques, I learned out to knit back backwards at the Reading knitting group on Saturday &#8211; good fun and I&#8217;m sure it will come in useful, although after my last brush with entrelac (a very large very green coat knitted a very long time ago and now relegated to camping due to its vast size) I am still feeling a little scarred.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of a clever way of changing topic now, so I will just wave my arms around and you can fill in a witty and intelligent segue in the conversation. The subject being that I am going to be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedthread.com\/knittingandstitchingshow\/birmingham.asp\">Knitting and Stitching show at the NEC<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0on Thursday with my Mum. Anyone else going? I can&#8217;t make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twistedthread.com\/knittingandstitchingshow\/alexandrapalace.asp\">Ally Pally<\/a> this year so we thought we would try the NEC and see what it is like.<\/p>\n<p>And on that note, given that I have irrevocably\u00c2\u00a0proved that I am way too tired to write a sensible blog post\u00c2\u00a0I am going to go to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m afraid I have been overdoing it again, I had hoped to post more frequently now on the shiny new blog but this last week or so has rather worn me out. I\u00c2\u00a0shall hope to be at least a little more coherent here than I have been in general the past few days &#8211; I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stranded-hat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Mzk-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}