{"id":1000,"date":"2010-12-12T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2010-12-12T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:25:24","slug":"after-17-months-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"After 17 months off…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…on a night that promises to be really<\/em> windy and cold (especially for South Carolina!), here I am writing a knitting blog post again. I need to do this. I can feel the pressure to write something building up.<\/p>\n

Why did I stop posting for so long? One reason is that I got myself into a bind. I’d been trying to write big posts, and when I didn’t have time to write long, involved posts with lots of pictures, I waited until I had time. Then I felt guilty about stopping the posts… and off down the spiral I went. Here I am, back again and I’m going to take it easy on myself. If I have a picture\u2014great! If I have a ‘deep thought’ about knitting that I want to explore\u2014awesome! But I’m not going to let the lack of an image stop me again.<\/p>\n

Perhaps once the dams are broken, things will flow again. Besides, Cristi asked me to write up my notes about how I modified the Chimera<\/a> pattern to make it into a double-layer mitten. I might as well make it into a post while I’m at it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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