{"id":205,"date":"2007-05-16T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2007-05-16T13:21:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T20:21:54","slug":"my-little-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/life.tanapageler.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"My Little Fling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/tanapageler.com\/life\/?p=200\">the other day<\/a> I talked about my valient efforts on those two huge, intimidating projects. Then you know what I did? I stopped working on them and worked on something else. Namely, my sock for the month of May.<\/p>\n<p>Now you must understand, I said earlier this year that I was going to knit one sock a month for a total of six pairs during 2007. I&#8217;ve stayed on track so far, but each sock has rolled over ever so slightly into the next month before it was finished. Except for this month.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, during the month of May, I decided that my next pair of socks would be <a href=\"http:\/\/knitty.com\/ISSUEwinter06\/PATTmonkey.html\">Monkey<\/a> socks by Cookie A which I would be knitting with some Cherry Tree Hill sock yarn in my stash. So I cast on about this time last week, and I finished Sunday. And yes, I think that would be a personal record for how many days it takes me to knit one sock. This would be a really bad picture of the first Monkey sock. [Better picture when they&#8217;re both finished&#8230;promise.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pageta\/501132986\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/209\/501132986_a71c811de4.jpg\" alt=\"Monkey One\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you&#8230;it&#8217;s a really fun pattern to knit, though. There&#8217;s some blogger I saw somewhere (don&#8217;t remember where at the moment) who has knit nine pairs of these socks. Though I have yet to finish my first pair, I certainly understand the addiction to that stitch pattern. It&#8217;s simple, easy, predictable, has variety &#8211; it&#8217;s everything you would want in a stitch pattern. A happy medium between the monotony of the Charcoal Slogalong and the tedium of St. Brigid.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, here is a picture I took right before I started writing this post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pageta\/501150351\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/206\/501150351_7b129842a3.jpg\" alt=\"St. Brigid\/Slogalong Progress\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have, in fact, finished the back of the Charcoal Slogalong, and I just began the sixth repeat in St. Brigid. You can also see in that photo the provisional cast on for the front of the Charcoal Slogalong, though I haven&#8217;t gotten past the &#8220;provision&#8221; and started working with the real yarn on the front yet. If you look at the size of the balls of yarn, though, you can see they&#8217;re progressing neck-in-neck. Cables really do use more yarn. Just saying is all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So now back to your regularly scheduled programming. Joey&#8217;s new diapers arrived a couple hours ago and I need to go wash them so we can use them. We had two plumber-butt blowouts this morning&#8230;I&#8217;m anxious to retire our current stash&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, the other day I talked about my valient efforts on those two huge, intimidating projects. Then you know what I did? I stopped working on them and worked on something else. Namely, my sock for the month of May. 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