{"id":977,"date":"2008-04-06T20:47:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T01:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jorahlavin.wordpress.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-04-06T20:47:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T01:47:23","slug":"first-glove-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=977","title":{"rendered":"First glove finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still have to sew on the false buttons on the cuff, but otherwise this first glove is finished. Now to begin the second&#8230;  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align:middle;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2340\/2393478395_8823f82b30.jpg\" alt=\"Long long lacy gloves\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2175\/2394308428_32556915ce.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of the glove\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(((<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate the comments&#8230; Turtlegirl, Cat, and Bron!<\/p>\n<p>This glove, my first lace attempt, has really increased my respect for people who do complex lace. The cuff was the only really lacy part, but I had a\u00a0\u00a0 very hard time keeping track of the pattern repeats in the sleeve section, and probably came close to knitting the entire thing twice, when you consider how many times I frogged the first section. I <em>still<\/em> have to block it today. I&#8217;m not used to having such an exciting social life, what with the Harlot&#8217;s book signing, then the Yarnaholics of Rock Hill on Wednesday, and my best friend&#8217;s birthday dinner tonight&#8230; and dinner out with other friends tomorrow! More activity than our usual two months.<\/p>\n<p>)))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still have to sew on the false buttons on the cuff, but otherwise this first glove is finished. Now to begin the second&#8230; ((( I really appreciate the comments&#8230; Turtlegirl, Cat, and Bron! This glove, my first lace attempt, has really increased my respect for people who do complex lace. The cuff was the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First glove finished!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[85],"tags":[96,104,120],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","tag-community","tag-lace","tag-wip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-fL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":976,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=976","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":0},"title":"Lace gloves, deadlines, and aching muscles","author":"Jorah","date":"March 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have until Tuesday evening to finish this pair of gloves, but it ain't happenin'. I just finished the arm section of the first glove last night, after knitting for about 12 hours spread over 14 hours. My back and left hand are aching from a) sitting in one place\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knitting","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=85"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":975,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=975","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":1},"title":"the first lace cuff has gone missing","author":"Jorah","date":"March 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I discovered last night that the first cuff I finished is now missing in action. We'll look for it today, but it looks like I'll get a chance to memorize this lace pattern after all.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knitting","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=85"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":974,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=974","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":2},"title":"Long long lacy gloves","author":"Jorah","date":"March 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally started work on the \"long long lacy gloves\" pattern from Lace Style by Allen and Budd. I worked on the lace cuff from mid afternoon until bed time off and on, and only completed two and a half repeats. 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The fact is;\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knitting","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=85"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1005,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1005","url_meta":{"origin":977,"position":4},"title":"Midweek update: Dashing around","author":"Jorah","date":"December 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I spent the weekend thinking about knitting but not actually ...you know...\u00a0knitting. The tendinitis\u00a0in my elbow is back, but I don't think that's why I didn't knit. 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I had one of those internal events that happen sometimes when I've been studying a new subject really intently; a whole bunch of disparate information twisted around and turned into ...well, I guess you could say \"understanding.\" I've been thinking about how\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Knitting&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Knitting","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?cat=85"},"img":{"alt_text":"A scan of my hand with grid lines drawn on it","src":"https:\/\/jorahlavin.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/glove-hand-lines.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}